From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 06:12:25 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1c246e87-181f-456f-b12d-5f5553fa0931@px4g2000pbc.googlegroups.co> References: <16922209.2557.1332231554137.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbcju1> <1c246e87-181f-456f-b12d-5f5553fa0931@px4g2000pbc.googlegroups.co> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Unable to boot from CD Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6eab38f0-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > @erik, @cinap: > 9front and 9atom booted properly. 9atom live-boot option didn't work, > but installation proceeded to [mountdist]. At that point I couldn't > figure out a way to point it correctly to the distribution, my linux > partition, though suggested, wouldn't mount. I had a plan9.iso there. > Before that at [partdisk] I manually specified a 3GB partition in some > raw free space I had. So I aborted, and then on I cannot boot into > Linux (I had backed up, so no worries). Why should the existing linux > boot partition get spoiled? Booting in with a rescue CD (Ubuntu Rescue > Remix), I can 'fdisk -l' all the partitions as they were. The NTFS > partition (I have Windows installed), and other ext3 partitions can be > mounted and navigated except for the boot partition (where root was > mounted). the fact that the live-boot doesn't work is sort of well-known. sorry about that. i don't know why your mbr is getting wacked. that's antisocial. i never dual-boot myself. i'll try to look at it this weekend. it's probablly as thiery points out that we're trying to overlay some chs crap onto a massive sata drive. can you send me the output of cat /dev/sd*/ctl when you get a chance? also, could you send me a fdisk summary of what the partition table looks like? a raw dump of the first 16 sectors of the drive would be even better. - erik