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: > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: JD <jd1008@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:jd1008@xxxxxxxxx> > <mailto:jd1008@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:jd1008@xxxxxxxxx>>> > To: Community support for Fedora users > <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > <mailto:users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > <mailto: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 > <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. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > > > > 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. > > -- 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
