Description of problem: In an installation running from an IDE drive I also have a SATA drive with an EXT3 partition. Everything works ok when I boot to Fedora Core 5. When I boot to Fedora Core 6, I am unable to mount the partition and when I use fdisk /dev/sda I notice that it shows the parition as type NTFS (ID:7). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): FEDORA CORE 6 How reproducible: Every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot fedora core 6 2.fdisk /dev/sda --> "p" to print filesystem types, shows wrong filesystem 3.Unable to mount partition Actual results: fdisk shows wrong filesystem type, unable to mount Expected results: fdisk should show ext3 partition type ID:83 Additional info: Harware: Asus A8N-E motherboard AMD 64 3000+ processor 939-socket Seagate 160GB IDE drive ST3160021A Western Digital 80GB SATA drive NEC DVD+-rw drive CD-ROM drive 1gigabyte memory (2x512) Original bios (never updated)
Created attachment 149777 [details] Device manager view of hardware
My mistake. Filesystem was ntfs, I didn't realise there was support for ntfs in FC5.