<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 4:24 PM,
Parshwa Murdia <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:b330bkn@gmail.com" target="_blank">b330bkn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 14:31:48 -0700<br>
Subject: Re: Can one now help?<br></blockquote></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Live CD also allows you to just boot the cd without installing it.<br>
So, do not select install. just boot it and the desktop will come up.<br>
in desktop, open a terminal:<br>
Click Applications -> System Tools -> Terminal<br>
<br>
in the shell terminal, mount your fedora partition:<br>
su -<br>
No password needed. just press enter.<br>
mkdir /mydisk<br>
mount /dev/sdXN /mydisk<br>
<br>
where X is the drive letter and N is the partition number (starts at 1)
where you installed fedora.<br>
<br>
Now cd to your /etc and edit fstab and fix the problem.<br>
<br>
If you do not know how to do that, post the contents of your fstab to
this list<br>
and I am certain someone will tell you what is wrong.<br></blockquote><div><br>one
things is that when you say sdXN, X is the drive letter means what
drive letter is give to the linux partition? in windows if i see, its H
so it should be like sdH9?? in the line:<br>
<br>
mount /dev/sdXN /mydisk<br><br>but the error i get is:<br><b><br>mount:
you must specify the filesystem type</b> (which comes in the terminal)<br><br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: Marko
Vojinovic <<a href="mailto:vvmarko@gmail.com" target="_blank">vvmarko@gmail.com</a>><br>
To: <a href="mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org" target="_blank">users@lists.fedoraproject.org</a><br></div>Date: Sun,
18 Jul 2010 19:50:22 +0100<br>Subject: Re: Can one now help?<br>On
Sunday, July 18, 2010 15:39:43 Parshwa Murdia wrote: </blockquote>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
You are right not to touch the install icon again. You do not want to
install<br>
the system all over again. Instead, once you have booted the Live CD and
have<br>
the desktop show up, you should do several things.<br>
<br>
First open the terminal (find it in the menus, its exact position
depends on<br>
KDE/Gnome Live CD, and I don't know which one you are using).<br></blockquote><div><br>Yes,
i am using Gnome and the live CD of fedora 11.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Then you need to find out which partition is the root partition of your<br>
installed Fedora. You do not want to confuse that to your *current* root<br>
partition which is on the Live CD. Hard disk partitions in Fedora are
named<br>
sda1, sda2, ... for the master hd on the primary IDE controller,<br>
sdb1, sdb2, ... for the slave hd on the primary IDE, then sdc1/2/... and<br>
sdd1/2/... for the master and slave on the secondary IDE, etc. Of
course, if<br>
you have a SATA drive this may be different. If you have a dual-boot<br>
configuration (ie. Windows), then it typically takes sda1 for Windows
drive C:,<br>
sda2 for windows drive D: (if you have one, not counting the CD/DVD
drive) and<br>
so on, while Fedora partitions go after those.<br></blockquote><div><br>yes,
its sata harddisk i think and dual booted with windows. in windows i
have partitions for C, D, E, F (four drives).<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>
I am writing all this to show you that partition layout depends a lot on
your<br>
hardware and software configuration, and no one on this list can guess
it for<br>
you --- you have to find it out yourself for your particular machine.
One way<br>
to do it is to use fstab:<br>
<br>
(1) once in the terminal, type "su -" to become root (without quotes)<br>
(2) type "fdisk -l /dev/sda"<br>
(3) fdisk will list the partition table of your hard disk --- look
carefully<br>
on that list, and try to figure out which partition is the Linux root<br>
partition. If you cannot guess it yourself, post the partition table
layout to<br>
us so we can help you with guessing.<br></blockquote><div><br>the result
of "fdisk -l /dev/sda" is as follows:<br><br>Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB,
250059350016 bytes<br>255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders<br>
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes<br>Disk identifier:
0xfedcfedc<br><br> Device Boot Start End Blocks
Id System<br>/dev/sda1 1 5737 46082421 7
HPFS/NTFS<br>
/dev/sda2 5738 30400 198105547+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)<br>/dev/sda5
5738 9561 30716248+ 7 HPFS/NTFS<br>/dev/sda6
9562 13385 30716248+ 7 HPFS/NTFS<br>/dev/sda7
13386 15935 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS<br>
/dev/sda8 * 15936 15961 204799+ 83 Linux<br>/dev/sda9
15961 28596 101487615+ 8e Linux LVM<br><br>I don't know why
there is no entry for sda3 and sda4. I guess the linux root partition to
be sda8? or it should be sda9?<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>
After you have determined which partition is the Fedora root (in what
follows<br>
I will assume that it is /dev/sda2, while you should substitute the
relevant<br>
/dev/sd?? instead), you want to mount it somewhere --- typically to /mnt<br>
directory of your running LiveCD Fedora. This is done as follows:<br>
<br>
(1) create a new directory in /mnt, by typing "mkdir /mnt/oldfedora"<br>
(2) mount the partition to that directory by typing<br>
"mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/oldfedora" (and don't forget to substitute
/dev/sda2<br>
with whatever is relevant for your case)<br></blockquote><div><br>mounting
this (for both sda8 and sda9), it shows me the error:<br><b><br>mount:
unknown filesystem type 'lvm2pv'</b> (in the terminal)<br><br>and once:<br>
<b><br>mount: you must specify the filesystem type</b> (in the terminal)<br><br>so
again it is not getting either mounted.<br></div></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br><br>After this all, I searched the google and
then, at the following web-page:<br><br><a href="http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=213000" target="_blank">http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=213000</a><br>
<br>I got some details to how mount the LVM2 and resolving the error.<br><br>I
typed the following three commands first:<br><br>[liveuser@localhost
~]$ su -<br>[root@localhost ~]# kpartx -av /dev/sda<br>[root@localhost
~]# vgscan<br>
[root@localhost ~]# vgchange -ay<br><br>After that i run the following
command:<br><br>[root@localhost ~]# ls /dev/mapper<br><br>the output of
which was:<br><br>control live-osimg-min live-rw VolGroup-lv_root
VolGroup-lv_swap<br>
<br>[root@localhost ~]# mount /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root
/mnt/oldfedora/<br><br>after that switched to the /mnt/oldfedora/<br><br>[root@localhost
~]# cd /mnt/oldfedora<br><br>and run the ls command<br><br>[root@localhost
oldfedora]# ls<br>
<br>which yielded:<br><br>bin dev home lost+found mnt proc
sbin srv tmp var<br>boot etc lib media opt root
selinux sys usr<br><br>Means i got to that area.<br><br>The output of
the following command:<br>
<br>[root@localhost oldfedora]# cat /etc/fstab<br><br>was:<br><br>#<br>#
/etc/fstab<br># Created by anaconda on Tue Jul 6 16:51:55 2010<br>#<br>#
Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'<br>
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or vol_id(8) for more
info<br>#<br># Adding (append) noatime, nodiratime after all 'defaults'
entries in the following (back of this file already taken)(<a href="http://digitizor.com/2009/01/31/fedora-speed-tweaks-make-fedora-faster/" target="_blank">http://digitizor.com/2009/01/31/fedora-speed-tweaks-make-fedora-faster/</a>)<br>
# See <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/indiadoor/home" target="_blank">http://sites.google.com/site/indiadoor/home</a><br><br>UUID=c6d4ce29-9af6-4c76-bbd2-c96e3fa4b8e7
/boot ext3 defaults, noatime, nodiratime 1 2<br>
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root / ext4 defaults,
noatime, nodiratime 1 1<br>/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_swap
swap swap defaults, noatime, nodiratime 0 0<br>tmpfs
/dev/shm tmpfs defaults, noatime, nodiratime 0 0<br>
devpts /dev/pts devpts
gid=5,mode=620 0 0<br>#devpts options modified by setup update to
fix #515521 ugly way<br>sysfs /sys
sysfs defaults, noatime, nodiratime 0 0<br>
proc /proc proc defaults,
noatime, nodiratime 0 0<br><br># Filesystem can be used for
frequently use temp folders by add the following lines (<a href="http://digitizor.com/2009/01/31/fedora-speed-tweaks-make-fedora-faster/" target="_blank">http://digitizor.com/2009/01/31/fedora-speed-tweaks-make-fedora-faster/</a>)<br>
<br>tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0<br>tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0<br><br>I
don't understand why it is wrong?<br><br>But after much pondering over, I just deleted the gap between the nodiratime,noatime and defaults, and really speaking after that only i was able to boot from the original fedora.<br>
<br>
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> > From: Marko Vojinovic <<a href="mailto:vvmarko@gmail.com">vvmarko@gmail.com</a>><br>
> > To: <a href="mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org">users@lists.fedoraproject.org</a><br>
> > Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:50:22 +0100<br>
> > Subject: Re: Can one now help?<br>
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This is 100% correct. Linux can understand quite a few file system<br>
architectures, so you need to include a '-t filesystemname' in your
mount<br>
command line. Man mount.<br></blockquote><div><br>yes but this was not working. <br></div></div>
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