From: Sauparna <sauparna.palc@gmail.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Unable to boot from CD
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:58:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20158797.18.1332445256322.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbgn5> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16922209.2557.1332231554137.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbcju1>
I tried several things, and help, again, will be appreciated. With the little knowledge I have I will try to explain the procedures.
@Thierry: I have a MBR, and not GPT. I have Windows and Linux (Ubuntu) and dual-boot through GRUB; as is the standard setup found when Ubuntu is installed second and GRUB writes the MBR. Secondly, I didn't know what to specify at the 'boot from:' prompt, and I haven't tried it yet. Yes, I can key in text at the prompt.
@cinap: 9front boots, and dies. I don't get installation / boot options at all. No prompt either.
@erik: 9atom worked. Booting from CD (option 2) didn't, but installation (option 1) proceeded fine till I got stuck at [mountdist], couldn't locate the distribution and it wouldn't proceed till I specify a correct source, so I quit at that point, rebooted and ended up losing my grub. I was careful enough to specify the right partition for installation, however I didn't choose the suggested layout but modified it (specifying start and end blocks) to occupy only 3GB of the raw free space I had. Booting from a live Ubuntu CD I can now list existing partitions using fdisk -l, but I am unable to mount my Ubuntu boot partition. 'mount' doesn't recognise the file system. The NTFS and another ext2 partition that I had can be mounted properly.
Here're my partitions. I have lost /dev/sda5 which was my boot partition. (Backed up, so no worries).
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 6374 51199123+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 6375 31298 200202030 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda3 31299 37359 48684982+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 37360 37759 3213000 39 Plan 9
/dev/sda5 6375 30689 195310206 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 30690 31297 4883728+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
So,
1. Why should my MBR get overwritten when I aborted the Plan 9 installation at [mountdist]? And why did my boot partition get spoilt?
2. What should I do to get the [mountdist] step to completion?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-23 9:58 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 [this message]
2012-03-23 9:58 ` Sauparna
2012-03-23 12:10 ` cinap_lenrek
2012-03-23 9:59 ` Sauparna
[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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