Can't boot after upgrade to FC6

[Tim]

On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 16:29 -0500, zephod at cfl.rr.com wrote:
> I noticed from reading the grub manual 
> (http:\\www.gnu.org\software\grub\manual.htm#Features) that it does 
> not list ext3 as one of the supported filesystem types. 
> 
> Is this my problem or is the manual not up-to-date? If this is the 
> problem how do I change the boot partition from ext3 to ext2 and how 
> did my FC5 system boot? 

My systems (FC4-FC6) have an ext3 boot partition.  Ext3 can be mounted
as ext2, with just a change in mounting options.  However, the boot
partition isn't mounted by GRUB like it is by the running OS.  I don't
know what mode GRUB uses the boot partition in.  Once the system has
begun to boot (GRUB has done its trick and handed things over), the boot
partition is mounted, by Linux.

> The other thing that looks odd to me is that the partition table is 
> msdos. Is this correct?

You're probably going to have to show us the output from: fdisk -l

Mine has nothing that shows up as MS-DOS, though the partitions are
written in a way that a BIOS only designed with Microsoft in mind, can
read.  Another issue is that you can format partitions with different
filing systems than the partitions are listed as.

Here's one of mine:

# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 15.3 GB, 15393079296 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1871 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
/dev/hda2              14         905     7164990   83  Linux
/dev/hda3             906         956      409657+  83  Linux
/dev/hda4             957        1871     7349737+   5  Extended
/dev/hda5             957        1007      409626   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda6            1008        1045      305203+  83  Linux
/dev/hda7            1046        1871     6634813+  83  Linux

hda1 is /boot
hda2 is /var
hda3 is /tmp
hda4 is an extended partition containing hda5-hda7
hda5 is the swap
hda6 is /home
hda7 is /

Other than the swap, they're all ext3.