dual booting fedora 10 and linpus

Dear all, I believe I have done something silly.

Yesterday I installed the XFCE spin of Fedora 10 which now works well. However, I tried to keep the original Linpus installation as well. What I did was resize the linpus partion (sda1 to 30G), then using the free space I created: a boot partition (200MB sda3), a root partition (~20G sda 6), a home partion (~10G sda5) and a data partion (~58G sda 5) keeping the 1G swap partition (sda2) - I have the 120G hard drive version.

Now I can read some data on sda1 (which I didn't reformat) but on most of the "top level" (/boot, /etc but not /home) directories I get an Input/output error if I try to access them.

When I try to boot into Linpus I can't and grub gives an error 17. I am assuming that this is due to the apparent corruption of sda1 where linpus resides.

Can anyone throw any light on to what I have done wrong and how to correct it?

Thanks
David

 

here's part of my /boot/grub/grub.conf

Code:

title Fedora Cambridge LXDE
	root (hd0,10)
	kernel /vmlinuz6 ro root=/dev/sda11 vga=789 selinux=0 
	initrd /initrd6

title Linpus Linux RCD
	rootnoverify (hd0,7)
	kernel /boot/bzImage ro root=LABEL=linpus vga=0x311 splash=silent loglevel=1 console=tty1 quiet nolapic_timer
  	initrd /boot/initrd-splash.img

and a bit of /etc/fstab from the above Fedora installation:

Code:

#
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Sat Sep 27 07:26:59 2008
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or vol_id(8) for more info
#
/dev/sda11       /	                      ext3	defaults	0 0
/dev/sda3		/mnt/Boot               ext3    defaults        0 0
/dev/sda7		/mnt/Temp1	      ext3	defaults	0 0
/dev/sda2		/mnt/WinXP            ntfs	auto,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/sda8		/mnt/Linpus	      ext2	defaults	0 0

hope it helps

 

Thank you - it helps a little I was trying the wrong partition in grub (hence the error 17) but now I'm trying the right one I'm still in problems.

FSCK has just reported that the partition table and superblock are inconsistent. Basically when I resized the sda1 partition it using the fedora installer, the superblock didn't get updated.

I'm thinking that I will reformat sda1 and reinstall linpus - and when that destroys the fedora installation I'll start again.

 

I did try gparted from an xubuntu usb (the fedora spin didn't seem to have that) but it reported as a broken ntfs system.
Now to choose whether I put fedora back on or try xubuntu (which is more familiar to me).

Thank you once again for your help