H.D. install problem -

Bob Goodwin bobgoodwin at wildblue.net
Sun Aug 24 19:35:36 UTC 2008


I removed the 80gB WindowsXP hard drive [/dev/sda] and replaced it with 
a larger drive on which I installed F9 from a Live CD.  The second drive 
[dev/sdb] has F8 on it, my primary Linux until this morning.  I would 
like to extract some configuration date from the F8 drive but have been 
unable to access it no matter what I've tried.  The problem is that it 
uses the LVM designations which I can't seem to deal with instead of the 
old "/dev/sda" etc.  I am lost!

Fortunately I have another F8 computer with most of the config data 
duplicated on it but I still want to be able to use the secocnd drive in 
this box.  I'm not sure what  data to provide or even what question to 
ask other than how do I go about getting access to the old F8 system.  
Grub only offers the the new F9 install.

Fdisk shows the following:

 # fdisk -l  /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000a7927

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          25      200781   83  Linux
/dev/sda2              26       30401   243995220   8e  Linux LVM


# fdisk -l  /dev/sdb

Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0005c4cc

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
/dev/sdb2              14        9729    78043770   8e  Linux LVM



Any suggestions appreciated.

Bob




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