recover from a bad F16 install

[Pete Travis]

On Mar 18, 2012 12:04 AM, "Paul Allen Newell" <pnewell at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
>
> On 3/17/2012 10:50 PM, Pete Travis wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Mar 17, 2012 11:37 PM, "T.C. Hollingsworth" <tchollingsworth at gmail.com>
wrote:
>> >
>> > On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 10:03 PM, Paul Allen Newell <pnewell at cs.cmu.edu>
wrote:
>> > > On 3/17/2012 9:52 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> > >> On 03/18/2012 12:49 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
>> > >>>
>> > >>> Though I appreciate the suggestion, I can't get any further
progress once
>> > >>> I do the
>> > >>> install to hard drive option ... its does the same "No usable
disks"
>> > >>> message (and
>> > >>> therefore no option to try anything).
>> > >>
>> > >> I don't think I ever suggested doing an install to hard drive....
>> > >>
>> > >> I was suggesting you check out the disk partitions using something
like
>> > >> parted to see
>> > >> how things are set up.  Did you do that?
>> > >>
>> > >
>> > > Ed:
>> > >
>> > > Oh, I did misread you and I apologize. Since I had never used a Live
CD, I
>> > > jumped to the faulty conclusion that its install to hard disk was
different
>> > > than the installation DVD.
>> > >
>> > > PartedMagic was the one option I asked about in my original email
and it
>> > > looks like that or the other two suggestions of sysresccd.org or
fdisc will
>> > > keep me busy tomorrow. I don't see parted when I did a which so I
figured it
>> > > was PartedMagic. I just tried as root on my working system and see
it (saved
>> > > myself an email about how I have to be root see it). As the
memtest86 is
>> > > going to go for a long time, I was under the impression that the
LiveCD user
>> > > doesn't have "root" access to munge with the hard drives et al ...
am I
>> > > mistaken?
>> >
>> > Odd, `parted` has been included on every Fedora LiveCD I've ever used.
>> >
>> > To get root on a LiveCD just open a terminal and run `su -`, no
>> > password required.
>> >
>> > > One good thing is I finally have a Live CD image that works. Every
other
>> > > time I've tried to create one it has been a horrible failure.
>> > >
>> > > Paul
>> >
>> > -T.C.
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>> Hey Paul,
>>
>> I've had anaconda fail to recognize drives due to leftover fake raid
metadata, among other things. Try using dd to zero out the first few megs
of the drive, assuming you don't need the existing partition table, and see
if it helps.
>>
>> `dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx bs=512 count=512`
>
>
> Pete:
>
> Thanks for reply. Tried your suggestion and no change to the message. I
did confirm that the window says "Examining Devices" to clarify an earlier
question that was asked.
>
> Am in process of downloading and creating CD of systemrescuecd ... but I
won't try it until tomorrow as I am getting tired and know I will probably
screw things up even worse if I get "too adventuresome in something I am
not familiar with"
>
> Paul
>
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Worth a try...

Any extra USB storage to remove?
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