unknown partition type

[Dan]

dpeck wrote:
> when i try to boot FC5 manually i get a message saying invalid or unknown partition type.  does FC5 simply use a partition type that GRUB cannot recognise?  in this distro has Grub become the GRand "Useless" Bootloader? :-P 
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> i wish they would just go back to lilo...it was less complicated...well provided you didn't have to reinstall windows after.
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It's far more likely that you're trying to boot the wrong partition. FC5 
uses ext3 by default, and GRUB has no problem with that filesystem. The 
boot line in your grub.conf suggest it's trying to boot from the first 
partition on the second hard drive. While in the grub prompt, type:
geometry (hd1)
to check if this is actually an ext3 partition (or even the right hard 
drive). Check (hd0) and see if you can recognize which is which. If hd0 
is the one you actually want to boot from, then try booting using 
(hd0,0) instead.
good luck,
-Dan