Fwd: Installation Problem

[pat at linuxcolumbus.com]

On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 11:54:27AM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote:
> >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:
> >

What does /boot/grub/grub.conf look like?  Does it have an entry to boot
from the fedora partition?


> >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).
> >

You are trying to mount the extended partition.

Pat