I had installed Ubuntu 10.04 on an extended partition using Live CD. The Grub was installed on mbr. Then I installed Mandriva 2010 and installed its grub on mbr. I knew not that this grub and Ubuntu's grub are different. Now I am unable to boot to Ubuntu inspite of adding it's entry to Mandriva grub...I get the boot option but it does not boot.
So I tried to install the grub2 from Ubuntu to mbr For this one has to mount and chroot where that partition is mounted. But on doing [ran...@localhost ~]$ su Password: [r...@localhost ranjit]# fdisk -l Unable to seek on /dev/sda [r...@localhost ranjit]# sfdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 19457 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track Warning: extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary. DOS and Linux will interpret the contents differently. Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 0+ 1304 1305- 10482381 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 1305+ 5641 4337- 34836677 5 Extended /dev/sda3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty /dev/sda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty /dev/sda5 3407+ 4622 1216- 9767488+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda6 1305+ 3250- 1946- 15625216 83 Linux /dev/sda7 3250+ 3406- 157- 1257472 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda8 4623+ 5641 1019- 8185086 83 Linux what to do now? How to mount the device? Even when I tried to reinstall Ubuntu using a DVD with Ultimate edition it cannot read the partition table. Strange. Any comments. regards, Ranjit. _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
