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Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:58:33 +0000
From: Sauparna <sauparna.palc@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Unable to boot from CD
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I tried several things, and help, again, will be appreciated. With the litt=
le 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 insta=
lled second and GRUB writes the MBR. Secondly, I didn't know what to specif=
y 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 (o=
ption 1) proceeded fine till I got stuck at [mountdist], couldn't locate th=
e 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 e=
nough to specify the right partition for installation, however I didn't cho=
ose 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 mo=
unt my Ubuntu boot partition. 'mount' doesn't recognise the file system. Th=
e 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 / Solari=
s

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?