On 07/18/2010 01:24 PM, Parshwa Murdia 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: Of course. > > mount /dev/sdXN /mydisk I seriously doubt you did it right. Mounting a fedora partition using fedora live does not require you to enter a type. As root: mount /dev/sda8 /mydisk would have mounted your fedora disk partition. > > but the error i get is: > * > mount: you must specify the filesystem type* (which comes in the terminal) > > You did something wrong, and you do not tell us what command you entered along with the arguments. > ---------- 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? > How many extended partitions do you have? Legacy partitions are a total of 4, and can be extended by having an extended partition, within which you can create 4 partitions. So please explain how you created these partitions? > 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. I repeat, post the verbatim command you entered. -- 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
