LL2 not booting if one extended partition is formatted to FAT 32

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Something does not make any sense to me.  This is the second time now that you have posted output that indicates that you are booted into the installed LL and that it has recognized and mounted the NTFS partition -- but you seem to think that it has not.

On your last post you said it booted okay, but did not recognize the NTFS partition.  That is not what I see.  In screenshot below, the first red box shows that you are booted into your installed LL.  The second red box show that it has mounted the NTFS partition at /mnt/Windows.





The other time this happened (where you said it wouldn't boot into the installed LL), I asked you in "Reply #7" to boot with the live DVD and run 3 commands.  Your reply to that, ("Reply #8), indicated that you had run the commands from within the installed (not live) LL.  In other words, you had booted into the installed LL while the sdb3 partition was formatted as NTFS -- which is something you said you could not do.  When I saw that, I asked you in "Reply 9" to post output from "cat /etc/fstab" thinking you would again boot into your installed LL to do it.  You then ran that command from the live DVD instead, which gave wrong info.  So I asked in "Reply 11" for you to boot back into LL and run command from there.  To which you said in "Reply 12" that you couldn't boot into it, even though that's exactly what you did do in "Reply 8".  However, you made changes to the drive and I could no longer pursue the question.

Here is screenshot of your "Reply #8" with red boxes showing that you were booted into the installed LL and that it recognized and mounted the NTFS partition.





One last note for now:

I'm not saying this to be mean, but to be blunt -- we are going in circles here and I feel like I'm wasting my time.  I make replies to your questions and ask for output based on what you post.  But, you keep making further changes to the partitions in the meantime which renders the command output I ask for inapplicable to your new, changed partitions.  If you want me to continue trying to figure this out, please wait for my answers before making further changes.

In your last post you said you were going to change everything back to "the Old way" -- whatever that means.  Post back whatever the situation is at that point, then don't change anything until I have a chance to reply.  If you change things again before seeing my reply, I will stop replying all together.