Can't Boot Mandriva

[gdawg]

Hi everyone, I am running Windows Vista, Ubuntu 10.4, and Mandriva on a Dell Inspiron 530S. After a recent re-installation of Windows I noticed that I had lost Ubuntu after re-installing Ubuntu I haven't been able to boot Mandriva. It doesn't show-up on the boot menu. I sure could use some help here. Thank you.

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

Its really easy to add Mandriva in GRUB Menu. Which version of Ubuntu are you using?

If you are using latest version then execute sudo update-grub command in Terminal. It will detect Mandriva and add an entry for it in GRUB Menu.

In case you are using earlier version, post the output of sudo fdisk -l and df -h commands here.

[gdawg]

Hi devils casper,
Thank you for your reply. I tried what you suggested to no avail. I have Ubuntu 10.4 installed. Following are some results I obtained from the commands that you stated:
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x28000000

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 6 48163+ de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 7 1312 10485760 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 * 1312 17089 126726657+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 17089 38913 175306593+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 26450 38400 95996376 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 38401 38913 4120641 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 17089 26062 72080384 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 26063 26449 3107840 82 Linux swap / Solaris

gdawg@glen-desktop:~$ sudo fdisk df-h


Unable to open df-h

Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst
Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ...
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-24-generic
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-23-generic
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic
Found GRUB 2: /boot/grub/core.img
Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done

After updating grub I rebooted but still no Mandriva on the menu; menu heading is GNU GRUB version 1.98-ubuntu7 and lists 6 versions of Ubuntu with Linux, then 2 Memory tests, Windows Recovery Environment, 2 linux, 1 failsafe, and 3 desktops.
I hope this info will help you to help me.

Regards,
Glen

[devils casper]

Something is wrong with Mandriva installation because GRUB2 detect all installed OSes very well and It should have done that with Mandriva too.

Have you tried to mount / partition of Mandriva in Ubuntu to check its contents?

There is a space between df and -h.

df -h

Post output here.

[gdawg]

Something is wrong with Mandriva installation because GRUB2 detect all installed OSes very well and It should have done that with Mandriva too.

Have you tried to mount / partition of Mandriva in Ubuntu to check its contents?

There is a space between df and -h.

df -h

Post output here.

gdawg@glen-desktop:~$ sudo df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda7 68G 4.9G 60G 8% /
none 1002M 308K 1002M 1% /dev
none 1006M 272K 1006M 1% /dev/shm
none 1006M 92K 1006M 1% /var/run
none 1006M 0 1006M 0% /var/lock
none 1006M 0 1006M 0% /lib/init/rw
Here are results from sudo df -h. Thanks.

[devils casper]

Execute this

cd /media
sudo mkdir mandriva
sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sda5  /media/mandriva
cd mandriva
ls

Does ls command list file structure of Mandirva correctly?

[gdawg]

Execute this

cd /media
sudo mkdir mandriva
sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sda5  /media/mandriva
cd mandriva
ls

Does ls command list file structure of Mandirva correctly?

Here are the results of commands;
gdawg@glen-desktop:~$ cd /media
gdawg@glen-desktop:/media$ sudo mkdir mandriva
[sudo] password for gdawg:
gdawg@glen-desktop:/media$ sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sda5 /media/mandriva
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda5,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

gdawg@glen-desktop:/media$ cd mandriva
gdawg@glen-desktop:/media/mandriva$ ls
gdawg@glen-desktop:/media/mandriva$ ls

Hope this helps. Thank you.

[devils casper]

In which filesystem did you format Mandriva's / partition?

[gdawg]

I think it was GRUB. It's whatever came with Mandriva 2010 Powerpack that I purchased 11/09. I originally had Windows Vista, then installed Mandriva and later installed Ubuntu 10.4. At that point the boot-menu showed Mandriva first and Windows after. When I selected Windows it showed Windows and Ubuntu. After I restored Window's to factory condition I could still access Mandriva but not Ubuntu. I have been unable to access Mandriva since I re-installed Ubuntu. I think Mandriva might be located on /sda7 of the hard drive because that partition has the most Gb after I have (I think) accounted for the other O/S's. I appreciate your assistance. Hope this helps.

[gdawg]

Hi devils casper, please disregard last post. Further research revealed that the Mandriva 2010 default file system was 'ext4'. The desktop was KDE 4.3.2. I hope this is the info that you asked for. Thanks again for your patience and assistance. Newbie but learning. Cheers.