On 07/18/2010 02:11 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday, July 18, 2010 05:09:23 pm Parshwa Murdia did opine: > >>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>> >>>> From: JD<jd1008@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:jd1008@xxxxxxxxx>> >>>> To: Community support for Fedora users >>>> <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>> <mailto:users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> 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) >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> >>> From: Marko Vojinovic<vvmarko@xxxxxxxxx> >>> To: 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. > 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. > As I already replied, no necessarily true for all filesystem types. To wit: $ sudo mount /dev/sdc1 /sdc1 $ ls /sdc1 lost+found/ sdb1.bkup/ sdb3.bkup/ sdb4.bkup/ sdc1 is an ext3 partition and is automatically recognized as such. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
