RE: Weird looking partition table

[Albert DE WINT <adwint pandora be>]

Op vr 30-05-2003, om 20:39 schreef Mark Knecht:
> >
> > The fully-automated installers do it all "behind your back".
> > Then the final result comes as a surprise for the newbie.
> 
> I understand. I'm just a newbie + 1. (For claibration, Rick = newbie + 1000)
> ;-)
> 
> 
> > I'm in I have
> > > access to all my files. (No different than mounting a Windows FAT drive
> > > under /mnt/windows for all three distributions.
> >
> > I understand the point.  But when it comes to typing the actual
> > commands, I'm just hopeless.
> 
> As root in Redhat:
> 
> mkdir /mnt/Mandrake
> 
> mount -t ext3 /dev/hda6 /mnt/Mandrake

[root DIMENSION root]# mount -t ext2 /dev/hda6 /mnt/Mandrake

	mount: /dev/hda6 already mounted or /mnt/Mandrake busy
	mount: according to mtab, /dev/hda6 is mounted on /

Woeha! I need a scotch, make that a double...

> (Adjust for names and file system type. After it works you can add it to
> fstab with a noauto option to make it easier in the future.)
> 
> >
> > > > > works would describe hda6 as (0,5).
> > > >
> > >
> > I added in GRUB:
> >
> > 	title Mandrake 9.0
> > 		rootnoverify (hd0.5)
> 
> That was a comma, not a period in my example.....

Yep, that's a typo, 
I checked GRUB: there I did enter a comma.
> 
> > 		chainloader +1
> >
> > booting it says:
> >
> > 	Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format
> > 	press any key to continue
> >
> > Then I tried something like the RED HAT title, (just a wild guess),
> > obviously that did not run neither. :-)
> >
> > title Mandrake 9.0
> >         root (hd0,5)
> >         kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.19-16 ro root=LABEL=/ hdd=ide-scsi
> >         initrd /initrd-2.4.19-16.img
> 
> OK, I notice (from memory - I haven't save this whole thread) another
> problem. If I remember, maybe hda6 is not currently bootable? It should have
> an asterisk near it's name in fdisk. Does it? If not, you cannot boot it
> until you mark it as bootable, 

You must have a memory like a horse! :-)

Indeed, there is NOT an asterisk (*) near hda6

> I believe. I'd like some help from Bob or
> Rick, or some other knowledgeable soul, before we make this change.
> 
> Basically, EVERY partition that holds a 'kernel image' (bzImage file) needs
> to be a bootable partition, I think.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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