Fwd: Installation Problem

[Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.]

>Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 13:33:19 -0400
>To: COLUG
>From: "Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D." <s.molnar at sbcglobal.net>
>Subject: Installation Problem
>
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>I'm currently running SuSE v9.0 with the root on /dev/hda3 and thought
>that I'd give RedHat Fedora a try (aster all, the price is right).
>I downloaded the iso images and successfully burned the CD's.  The
>Fedora installer checked them and they passed.
>
>I decided to install Fedora on a different HD (I have 3 on the platform)
>and told the Fedora installer to use /dev/hdb2 as the root directory,
>the installer found the swap partition. The installer went ahead and did
>so without any complaints and the installation went trundling along.
>Fedora uses the grub boot loader, which is what I've been using for a
>couple of years now, and the installer found the SuSE partition and let
>me select it as the default.
>
>So far, so good, or at least I though so
>until I rebooted the system. Grub opened up with linux as the default,
>and it turned out to be my SuSE partition.  Fedora was not in evidence,
>nor could I mount the partition once I was up and running in SuSE.  The
>error message is:
>
>abnormal:/ # mount -t ext3 /dev/hdb2 /Fedora
>mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb2,
>        or too many mounted file systems
>        (aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
>        instead of some logical partition inside?)
>
>In fact if I do fdisk on /dev/hdb it tells me that /dev/hdb2 is ID f and
>the System is Win95 Ext'd (LBA).
>
>I would at least like to be able to start the Fedora partition.  Does
>anyone have any suggestions?
>
>Thanks in advance.