recover from a bad F16 install

[Paul Allen Newell]

On 3/17/2012 11:09 PM, Pete Travis wrote:
>
>
> On Mar 18, 2012 12:04 AM, "Paul Allen Newell" <pnewell at cs.cmu.edu 
> <mailto: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 <mailto:tchollingsworth at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 10:03 PM, Paul Allen Newell 
> <pnewell at cs.cmu.edu <mailto: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 
> <http://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?
>

Not certain what you mean ...

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