Can't read Fedora partition

[CaptainFreedom]

Hi,

I just installed Mandrake 10.1. It seemed to work quite well, except it screwed up my existing Fedora Core 1 partition. I asked for Mandrake to be installed on /dev/hda7. Fedora core was already on /dev/hda6.

The boot loader says that Mandrake loads on hda7 and fedora on hda6. This is the entry for Fedora:

Boot loader

linux (/boot/vmlinuz)

root:

/dev/hda6

acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda5

 

 

When I boot into Mandrake and call mount it shows the following:

[root@localhost lefty]# mount

/dev/hda6 on / type ext3 (rw)

none on /proc type proc (rw)

none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)

none on /sys type sysfs (rw)

none on /mnt/floppy type supermount (rw,sync,dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850)

/dev/hda1 on /mnt/win_c type ntfs (ro,umask=0,nls=iso8859-15)

/dev/hda2 on /mnt/win_d type vfat (rw,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850)

/dev/hda3 on /mnt/data type vfat (defaults)

 

mount is showing Mandrake installed on hda6!

the result is that there is no way to access my fedora partion from Mandrake.

 

 

Anyone have any idea how to fix the problem?

thanks,

Ed

[devries]

Is your problem you can't boot into Fedora? or is hda6 corrupted? Can you acces that partition?

[CaptainFreedom]

Is your problem you can't boot into Fedora? or is hda6 corrupted? Can you acces that partition?

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The problem is that I can't access my Fedore partition from Mandrake. I'm fairly sure the partition is not corrupted.

I can boot into Fedora, but it can no longer access vfat partitions but I think this is caused by the first error - if lilo can't access the partion then I imagine that it won't be able to boot into the partition properly

[arctic]

are you really sure that fedora is on hda6? try to mount different partitions temporarily. maybe mandrake "moved" fedora to hda5 or hda7. i never experienced mandrake to mount anything wrong (in terms of partition-numbers) and never experienced it to simply wipe an existing installation unless you do not pay attention at the partition-setup.

[CaptainFreedom]

I finally fixed the problem.

What was confusing me was that Mandrake control center was showing my Fedore partition as mounted at "/" and it woundn't let me unmount it!

So I had to manually edit fsab file and put the correct mount in and reboot.

Then Mandrake had created a boot entry for fedora with the wrong image (/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-0.pre2.1mdk)

So I coped vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl and initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img from my origonal Fedore /boot to the Mandrake boot and set the image and initrd to point to these. This was just a guess, I really have no idea what any of this means, but now Fedora boots correctly, so I'm not complaining ;)

[aRTee]

You have to know that in lilo.conf the path to the kernel and initrd is the actual current path, not the path on that partition.

 

Meaning: if you have a root partition /dev/hda6 with FC which is mounted at /mnt/fcroot and a root partition /dev/hda7 with Mdk which is currently running and thus mounted as / you will have to have in your lilo entry for FC:

/dev/hda6

and for the kernel:

/mnt/fcroot/boot/vmlinuz...

and for the initrd:

/mnt/fcroot/boot/initrd...

 

 

I think that's where you erred..