Hello, One of my friend used a dual boot of Mandriva GNU/Linux and Windows XP in his computer. Few days back, he became fully confident of using GNU/Linux alone in his system. I removed his Windows partition, the swap and ext3 partition and installed Mandriva 2009. Thats where the problem began. After I installed Mandriva and restarted the system, the GRUB was not showing up and the system won't boot. I re-installed the GRUB from a live cd, but same result. Some what I was able to bring up GRUB by using makeactive command in GRUB terminal. Mandriva booted, but it is only recognizing two partitions where the hard disk is actually having five partitions. Here is a rough sketch of partition layout.
/dev/sda1 swap Logical partition starts here: /dev/sda5 ntfs /dev/sda6 ntfs /dev/sda7 ntfs (this is the one that is refusing to mount) /dev/sda8 ext3 (root partition for mandriva) Its strange that the new root partition for Mandriva is numbered as sda8. When I use mount like mount /dev/sda7 disk/ or mount -t ntfs /dev/sda7 disk/ result is mount: special device /dev/sda9 does not exist I also tried ntfs-3g, but it fails saying that failed to access volume. Gparted and fdisk say that the partition is there. Please help me to fix this problem as I don't want my friend to install Windows for just accessing the partition. Regards, Ansal. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
