From: Sauparna <sauparna.palc@gmail.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Unable to boot from CD
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:59:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <13728275.412.1332481549315.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbcty5> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16922209.2557.1332231554137.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbcju1>
I tried several things, and help, again, is appreciated.
@Thiery: I could key in characters at the 'boot from' prompt, put didn't try anything then. I have an MBR and not GPT, it's a dual-booted system with Ubuntu having been installed second, after Windows. I used to boot through GRUB, as is the standard setup.
@eirk: 9atom worked. The live-boot option didn't but the installation proceeded till [mountdist] where I was unable to point the installer to the distribution archive. I aborted and rebooted at this point, and ended up losing GRUB and the Linux boot partition (I have backed up, so no worries).
@cinap: 9front booted properly.
So, I am wondering why 9atom would write to the MBR then, isn't that option asked for after [mountdist]? I was careful enough to specify the correct partition at [partdisk]. There was a default layout suggested, which I manually modified to take up 3GB only. Other than that, I made no changes. Booting into my system with a live rescue disk (Ubuntu Rescue Remix), I can 'fdisk -l' the partition table, everything shows up, but I can't mount the ubuntu boot partition. Other NTFS and ext3 partitions are fine, can be mounted and navigated.
Secondly, what do I do at [mountdist] to correctly specify a dist archive?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-23 9:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-20 9:54 Sauparna
2012-03-20 10:15 ` tlaronde
2012-03-20 10:21 ` erik quanstrom
2012-03-20 10:20 ` cinap_lenrek
2012-03-23 9:58 ` Sauparna
2012-03-23 9:58 ` Sauparna
2012-03-23 12:10 ` cinap_lenrek
2012-03-23 9:59 ` Sauparna [this message]
[not found] ` <1c246e87-181f-456f-b12d-5f5553fa0931@px4g2000pbc.googlegroups.co>
2012-03-23 10:12 ` erik quanstrom
2012-03-23 16:07 ` Sauparna
2012-03-26 9:27 ` Sauparna
2012-03-30 15:13 ` Sauparna
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