FC3 "read only file system" after Ubuntu install

[Duncan Lithgow]

One more interesting thing to note is that qtparted under knoppix can
see everything, no trouble, strange since parted can't. So using the
/dev/hdb1 format I can see where each bit it.

Thanks for the help so far Phil

Duncan


On 6/14/05, Duncan Lithgow <dlithgow at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I presume the following is a quote, at least I made it look like one...
> 
> Yes, it was a quote
>  
> > Very difficult to give detailed help without system details such as
> > "fdisk -l" output with notations as to what is on which partition,
> > e2label output from relevant partitions, and fstab.  The thread you
> > cited gives some clues/suggestions as will as the [mis]quoted message
> > above.
> > 
> > In general, if you can boot to rescue mode, use e2label to display/fix
> > ext3 partition labels to avoid conflicts, and fix /boot/grub/grub.conf
> > and /etc/fstab to match; OR use device names rather than labels
> > in /boot/grub/grub.conf and /etc/fstab.
> 
> Well, digging around got me no-where...:
> 
> # fdisk /dev/hdb
> Unable to open /dev/hdb
> 
> I get the same for /dev/hda. And fdisk -l gives:
> 
> # fdisk -l
> cannot open /proc/partitions
> 
> When I tried the same on Knoppix I get:
> 
> knoppix at 1[knoppix]$ fdisk -l
> Can't open /dev/hda
> Can't open /dev/hdb
> 
> So let's try e2label:
> 
> # e2label /dev/hdb
> e2label: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/hdb
> Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock
> 
> Ok, what about parted?
> 
> knoppix at 1[knoppix]$ parted
> Error: No device found
> Retry/Cancel?
> 
> Anyone have any ideas on what I should try now?
> 
> Please help me get this straight...
> - I can't have two partitions with the label '/' (even though Ubuntu
> starts fine!)
> - I therefore should change one of the '/' labels to something else -
> what could that be?
> - After I've changed it I need to edit 'grub.conf' and '/etc/fstab'.
> Since it's tricky for me to even read those files just now, could you
> give me an example of which bit to edit? In 'grub.conf' I think it's
> something like root=Label='/' should change to root='/dev/hdb1 and
> something pretty similar in fstab.
> 
> Am I getting the idea of this problem?
> 
> Duncan
>