[tlug] Fwd: problems when setting up a triple-boot (xp, fc6, kubuntu) system

["Hector Akamine" <akamine@example.com>]

Hi,

I am having some problems after trying to set up a triple-boot system
(Windows XP, Fedora 6, Ubuntu 6.10) starting from a dual-boot (XP,
Fedora 5) system. These are the steps I have done so far:

1) In my dual boot system, I installed FC6, replacing FC5, with the
following partitioning scheme (in order to leave space for kubuntu):

/dev/hdc1 ntfs (windows XP, this is unchanged)
/dev/hdc2 ext3 mounted as /boot (for boot partition of FC6)
/dev/hdc3 ext3 mounted as /boot_ubuntu (for boot partition of kubuntu)
/dev/hdc5 ext3 mounted as / (root partition of FC6)
/dev/hdc6 swap
/dev/hdc7 ext3 mounted as /ubuntu (root partition of kubuntu)

The installation of FC6 finished successfully, and I got a dual boot
(XP, FC6) system working without problems

2) I then installed kubuntu 6.10 (using the alternate installation
CD), with the following mount points:

/dev/hdc1  mounted as /media/hdc1 (ubuntu's default)
/dev/hdc2 mounted as /media/hdc2  (ubuntu's default) (this is fedora's /boot)
/dev/hdc3 mounted as /boot
/dev/hdc5 mounted as /media/hdc5 (ubuntu's default) (this is fedora's  /)
/dev/hdc6  swap
/dev/hdc7 mounted as /
(I chose only to format hdc3 and hdc7 leaving fedora partitons intact

Kubuntu installation finished successfully, installed the boot sector
in the MBR, and now when I reboot the machine I have the grub menu
that lets me start XP, FC6 or kubuntu.. So far, so good. But......

While XP and ubuntu run without problems, the FC6 installation in
screwed up !! When I boot FC6, it seems to start ok, but then I start
getting some error messages:

Unable to access resume device (LABEL=SWAP-hdc6)
fsck.ext3 unable to resolve 'LABEL=/boot_ubuntu'
fsck.ext3 unable to resolve 'LABEL=/ubuntu'
*** An error ocurred during the file system check
*** Dropping you to a shell, the system will reboot
*** when you leave the shell

And then I get a shell prompt, with the FC6's  / (root) partition
mounted read-only.

I guess the problem is that I wrongly assumed that the mount points
were only valid in FC6 and would not interfere with ubuntu (and
viceversa for the mount points defined in ubuntu). Is this the cause
of the problem? If so, how can  I do  to make the FC6 system work
again, without screwing up kubuntu this time?

Just in case the information is useful, /etc/fstab in FC6 looks something like
LABEL=/                         /                       ext3
defaults        1  1
LABEL=/boot1                /boot               ext3     defaults        1  2
LABEL=/boot_ubuntu     /boot_ubuntu   ext3     defaults         1 2
LABEL=/ubuntu              /ubuntu   ext3     defaults         1 2

and the /etc/fstab in kubuntu is something like this:
/dev/hdc7
UUID=(some vaule)     /               ext3
defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /dev/hdc3
UUID=(some value)     /boot           ext3    defaults        0       2
# /dev/hdc1
UUID=(some vaule)     /media/hdc1     ntfs
defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0       1
# /dev/hdc2
UUID=(some vaule)       /media/hdc2     ext3    defaults        0       2
# /dev/hdc5
UUID=(some vaule)       /media/hdc5     ext3    defaults        0       2

Did somebody succeed when trying a similar setup?

Thanks,

Hector