2007/7/25, antonio montagnani <antonio.montagnani@xxxxxxxxx>:
2007/7/25, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > antonio montagnani wrote: > > I was running F7 on an external USB disk. > > I powerd off the hard dik during operation, and now I can see only the > > /boot partition and of course I cannot start the PC. > > > > How can I recover the situation??? I mena without re-installing??? > > The first step is to find out what the damage is. I normally boot > from a live CD, or the install CD in the rescue mode. From there, > the next step is to run "fdisk -l /dev/sdx" where x is the letter > for the USB drive. This will let you see what partitions you have. > If the partition table is messed up, then you have to fix that > before trying anything else. > > If the partitions are all there, then the next step is to check the > partitions. You can run fschk on the /boot partition to see if it is > correct. If you are using lvm, then checking the other partitions > gets a bit more complicated. Because you can still read /boot, I > would read /boot/grub/grub.conf and see what volume group the root > partition is on. You should see something like: > > title Fedora Core (2.6.20-1.2962.fc6) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2962.fc6 ro > root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet > > This tells me that the root file system is on Volume Group 0, > Logical Volume 0, so I know that there is at least one Volume Group, > and it has at least one Logical Volume. I also know their names. > > I am not that good with lvm yet, so I usually work with the LVM man > pages open in one VT, and work in the other to diagnose the > problems. Hopefully someone that is better with LVM will post how to > check/repair LVM problems. If not, and you determine that it is a > LVM problem, I will do my best to walk you through it... > > I have found the SystemRescue CD handy for doing this type of work... > > http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page > > Mikkel > -- > > Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, > for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > Dispositivo Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/sdb2 14 19457 156183930 8e Linux LVM [root@Casa ~]# and then??? tnx for help... (any way I am learning, but I have all backups !!) -- Antonio Montagnani Skype : antoniomontag
I made a desperate try :-) I inserted the original Fedora DVD and I told to upgrade an existing installation (that was found): in two secnds work was completed, I rebooted and it works!!!! Kind of magic: any explanation???? -- Antonio Montagnani Skype : antoniomontag
