Can one now help?
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at gmail.com
Sun Jul 18 21:11:44 UTC 2010
On Sunday, July 18, 2010 05:09:23 pm Parshwa Murdia did opine:
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> >> From: JD <jd1008 at gmail.com <mailto:jd1008 at gmail.com>>
> >> To: Community support for Fedora users
> >> <users at lists.fedoraproject.org
> >> <mailto:users at lists.fedoraproject.org>> Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010
> >> 14:31:48 -0700
> >> Subject: Re: Can one now help?
> >
> > Live CD also allows you to just boot the cd without installing it.
> > So, do not select install. just boot it and the desktop will come up.
> > in desktop, open a terminal:
> > Click Applications -> System Tools -> Terminal
> >
> > in the shell terminal, mount your fedora partition:
> > su -
> > No password needed. just press enter.
> > mkdir /mydisk
> > mount /dev/sdXN /mydisk
> >
> > where X is the drive letter and N is the partition number (starts at
> > 1) where you installed fedora.
> >
> > Now cd to your /etc and edit fstab and fix the problem.
> >
> > If you do not know how to do that, post the contents of your fstab to
> > this list
> > and I am certain someone will tell you what is wrong.
>
> 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:
>
> mount /dev/sdXN /mydisk
>
> but the error i get is:
> *
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type* (which comes in the
> terminal)
>
>
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> > From: Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at gmail.com>
> > To: users at lists.fedoraproject.org
> > Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:50:22 +0100
> > Subject: Re: Can one now help?
>
> > On Sunday, July 18, 2010 15:39:43 Parshwa Murdia wrote:
> You are right not to touch the install icon again. You do not want to
>
> > install
> > the system all over again. Instead, once you have booted the Live CD
> > and have
> > the desktop show up, you should do several things.
> >
> > First open the terminal (find it in the menus, its exact position
> > depends on
> > KDE/Gnome Live CD, and I don't know which one you are using).
>
> Yes, i am using Gnome and the live CD of fedora 11.
>
> > Then you need to find out which partition is the root partition of
> > your installed Fedora. You do not want to confuse that to your
> > *current* root partition which is on the Live CD. Hard disk
> > partitions in Fedora are named sda1, sda2, ... for the master hd on
> > the primary IDE controller, sdb1, sdb2, ... for the slave hd on the
> > primary IDE, then sdc1/2/... and sdd1/2/... for the master and slave
> > on the secondary IDE, etc. Of course, if
> > you have a SATA drive this may be different. If you have a dual-boot
> > configuration (ie. Windows), then it typically takes sda1 for Windows
> > drive C:,
> > sda2 for windows drive D: (if you have one, not counting the CD/DVD
> > drive) and
> > so on, while Fedora partitions go after those.
>
> yes, its sata harddisk i think and dual booted with windows. in windows
> i have partitions for C, D, E, F (four drives).
>
> > I am writing all this to show you that partition layout depends a lot
> > on your
> > hardware and software configuration, and no one on this list can guess
> > it for
> > you --- you have to find it out yourself for your particular machine.
> > One way
> > to do it is to use fstab:
> >
> > (1) once in the terminal, type "su -" to become root (without quotes)
> > (2) type "fdisk -l /dev/sda"
> > (3) fdisk will list the partition table of your hard disk --- look
> > carefully
> > on that list, and try to figure out which partition is the Linux root
> > partition. If you cannot guess it yourself, post the partition table
> > layout to
> > us so we can help you with guessing.
>
> the result of "fdisk -l /dev/sda" is as follows:
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0xfedcfedc
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 1 5737 46082421 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda2 5738 30400 198105547+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/sda5 5738 9561 30716248+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda6 9562 13385 30716248+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda7 13386 15935 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda8 * 15936 15961 204799+ 83 Linux
> /dev/sda9 15961 28596 101487615+ 8e Linux LVM
>
> 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?
>
> > After you have determined which partition is the Fedora root (in what
> > follows
> > I will assume that it is /dev/sda2, while you should substitute the
> > relevant
> > /dev/sd?? instead), you want to mount it somewhere --- typically to
> > /mnt directory of your running LiveCD Fedora. This is done as
> > follows:
> >
> > (1) create a new directory in /mnt, by typing "mkdir /mnt/oldfedora"
> > (2) mount the partition to that directory by typing
> > "mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/oldfedora" (and don't forget to substitute
> > /dev/sda2 with whatever is relevant for your case)
>
> mounting this (for both sda8 and sda9), it shows me the error:
> *
> mount: unknown filesystem type 'lvm2pv'* (in the terminal)
>
> and once:
> *
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type* (in the terminal)
>
> so again it is not getting either mounted.
This is 100% correct. Linux can understand quite a few file system
architectures, so you need to include a '-t filesystemname' in your mount
command line. Man mount.
--
Cheers, Gene
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