From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:59:01 +0000 From: Sauparna Message-ID: <13728275.412.1332481549315.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbcty5> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable References: <16922209.2557.1332231554137.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbcju1> Subject: Re: [9fans] Unable to boot from CD Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6e804834-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I tried several things, and help, again, is appreciated. @Thiery: I could key in characters at the 'boot from' prompt, put didn't tr= y 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 proce= eded till [mountdist] where I was unable to point the installer to the dist= ribution 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).=20 @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 p= artition at [partdisk]. There was a default layout suggested, which I manua= lly modified to take up 3GB only. Other than that, I made no changes. Booti= ng into my system with a live rescue disk (Ubuntu Rescue Remix), I can 'fdi= sk -l' the partition table, everything shows up, but I can't mount the ubun= tu boot partition. Other NTFS and ext3 partitions are fine, can be mounted = and navigated.=20 Secondly, what do I do at [mountdist] to correctly specify a dist archive?