Re: Can one now help?

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  On 07/18/2010 03:35 PM, Parshwa Murdia wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Parshwa Murdia <b330bkn@xxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:b330bkn@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
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>                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@xxxxxxxxx
>         <mailto:vvmarko@xxxxxxxxx>>
>         To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>         <mailto:users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>         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.
>
>
>
> After this all, I searched the google and then, at the following web-page:
>
> http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=213000
>
> I got some details to how mount the LVM2 and resolving the error.
>
> I typed the following three commands first:
>
> [liveuser@localhost ~]$ su -
> [root@localhost ~]# kpartx -av /dev/sda
> [root@localhost ~]# vgscan
> [root@localhost ~]# vgchange -ay
>
> After that i run the following command:
>
> [root@localhost ~]# ls /dev/mapper
>
> the output of which was:
>
> control  live-osimg-min  live-rw  VolGroup-lv_root  VolGroup-lv_swap
>
> [root@localhost ~]#  mount /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root /mnt/oldfedora/
>
> after that switched to the /mnt/oldfedora/
>
> [root@localhost ~]# cd /mnt/oldfedora
>
> and run the ls command
>
> [root@localhost oldfedora]# ls
>
> which yielded:
>
> bin   dev  home  lost+found  mnt  proc  sbin     srv  tmp  var
> boot  etc  lib   media       opt  root  selinux  sys  usr
>
> Means i got to that area.
>
> The output of the following command:
>
> [root@localhost oldfedora]# cat /etc/fstab
>
> was:
>
> #
> # /etc/fstab
> # Created by anaconda on Tue Jul  6 16:51:55 2010
> #
> # Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
> # See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or vol_id(8) for 
> more info
> #
> # Adding (append) noatime, nodiratime after all 'defaults' entries in 
> the following (back of this file already 
> taken)(http://digitizor.com/2009/01/31/fedora-speed-tweaks-make-fedora-faster/)
> # See http://sites.google.com/site/indiadoor/home
>
> UUID=c6d4ce29-9af6-4c76-bbd2-c96e3fa4b8e7 /boot                   
> ext3    defaults, noatime, nodiratime        1 2
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root /                       ext4    defaults, 
> noatime, nodiratime        1 1
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_swap swap                    swap    defaults, 
> noatime, nodiratime        0 0
> tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults, 
> noatime, nodiratime        0 0
> devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  
> gid=5,mode=620        0 0
> #devpts options modified by setup update to fix #515521 ugly way
> sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults, 
> noatime, nodiratime        0 0
> proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults, 
> noatime, nodiratime        0 0
>
> # Filesystem can be used for frequently use temp folders by add the 
> following lines 
> (http://digitizor.com/2009/01/31/fedora-speed-tweaks-make-fedora-faster/)
>
> tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0
> tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0
>
> I don't understand why it is wrong?
>
> 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.
>

That's why I asked you to post your fstab to this list.
Almost anyone on this list could havr told you to remove
the spaces between the comma and the next mount option.

>
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>     > > From: Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@xxxxxxxxx
>     <mailto:vvmarko@xxxxxxxxx>>
>     > > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>     <mailto:users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     > > Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:50:22 +0100
>     > > Subject: Re: Can one now help?
>
>     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.
>
>
> yes but this was not working.
>
>

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