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?
