mounting ext3 / booting FC4

Master of Reality · 02-02-2006, 03:32 PM

When i try to mount my new fedora installations partition from suse It says that it cant find the partition type. When i use - t ext3 it says wrong partition type. dmesg says that no valid ext3 filesystem is found. I didnt let fedora install grub because its already installed, so i need to get the kernel and such and boot it in my /boot (in suse).

Since i cant mount the fedora partition... I tried using the fedora CD as a rescue disc and boot from it... but the screen doesnt come up properly when i do that (i can only see about 3 centimetres of the screen on the left, the rest is blank.) THis is on a widescreen LCD display (acer laptop)

Any ideas how i could possibly boot this fedora installation!? I would really like to use fedora during a linux workshop im running.

pixellany · 02-02-2006, 03:46 PM

For starters, could we have the output of "fdisk -l" (ell, not one)

Master of Reality · 02-02-2006, 04:01 PM

Code:

Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1        1020     8193118+   b  W95 FAT32
/dev/hda2            2168        6642    35945437+  83  Linux
/dev/hda3            7250        7296      377527+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda4            1021        2167     9213277+  83  Linux

And to clarify where they are on the disk:
hda1
hda4
hda2
Free(unusable space)
hda3

amosf · 02-02-2006, 04:22 PM

If that was my drive I would remove the swap partition and create a new extended partition starting at 6643 which would be hda3, then add the swap back (say hda5) and claim back the unused space with hda6....

Master of Reality · 02-02-2006, 04:38 PM

i probably will... after i can get fedora working