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knezi

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Registered: 2014-04-13

Posts: 45

[SOLVED] can't mount boot partition of other distro

Hi,
I've installed Arch a Fedora on my laptop. I've got separate boot partition (sda1) with syslinux installed on Arch. I need to add there Fedora booting, so I need vmlinuz, initramfs files from Fedora. I installed fedora on boot partition (sda8) and I need to copy files to sda1. The problem is I can't mount /dev/sda8 (error: function not implemented). I even don't know what type of FS it is. In gparted there's unkonwn, in cgdisk Microsoft basic data, which seems to me really strange.
I'm using 64b Arch, Fedora 20 64b, GPT table.
Any suggestions? Or is there different way how to get the files?

Last edited by knezi (2015-07-16 09:04:34)

jwm-art

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Registered: 2011-02-01

Posts: 87

Re: [SOLVED] can't mount boot partition of other distro

What does `sudo parted /dev/sda print` say?

Last edited by jwm-art (2014-06-28 14:27:09)

knezi

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Registered: 2014-04-13

Posts: 45

Re: [SOLVED] can't mount boot partition of other distro

Model: ATA ST9320325AS (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 320GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Tabulka oddílů: gpt
Disk Flags: pmbr_boot

Číslo  Začátek  Konec   Velikost  Systém souborů  Název   Přepínače
 1     1049kB   525MB   524MB     ext4            boot    bios_grub, legacy_boot
 2     525MB    32,7GB  32,2GB    ext4            arch
 3     32,7GB   64,9GB  32,2GB    ext4            fedora
 4     64,9GB   75,7GB  10,7GB    ext4            var
 5     75,7GB   86,4GB  10,7GB    ext4            tmp
 6     86,4GB   92,9GB  6442MB    linux-swap(v1)  swap
 7     92,9GB   254GB   161GB     ext4            home
 8     254GB    254GB   524MB

knezi

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Registered: 2014-04-13

Posts: 45

Re: [SOLVED] can't mount boot partition of other distro

I have solved it!
There was no boot partition for Debian and Fedora, which I have installed, so it was stored simply in directory /boot. I have just copied initramfs and vmlinuz to the real boot partition and in Arch changed configuration of syslinux.