Hi all, On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Joe Zeff <joe@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Did you back up anything before starting? > Not really, no, but doing it now. On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Frank Murphy <frankly3d@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 07/10/12 10:21, Daniel Landau wrote: >> My computer is in a totally useless state, as I can not boot at all. >> What I did was I tried to join my root, boot and home partitions into >> one. > > Explain what is the name of the One? Not really sure what you mean by this. It's name is /dev/sda5 perhaps? On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Frank Murphy <frankly3d@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 07/10/12 14:22, Matthew Miller wrote: >> So, how can Daniel find exactly what is making this system fail to boot? > > Thats' known already, he moved stuff, and libs\configs etc, > are now in a maze. Why should libs and configs care about the partitions as long as everything is mounted correctly? >> Is there a way to turn on more helpful debugging output? > > Yes, reinstall That's not really helpful. On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2012-10-07 at 12:21 +0300, Daniel Landau wrote: >> What I did was I tried to join my root, boot and home partitions into >> one. > > Not really a good idea, but most particularly not keeping boot separate. > Nothing wrong with the other stuff being on one partition, you just need > to make the change carefully. There's no reason why you couldn't keep everything on one partition. One possible reason could be having an ext2 boot partition and something more exciting for the rest, but I don't think my problem is with booting off ext4. > >> I copied the files, updated the grub config and /etc/fstab and >> recreated the initramfs, all this from a live Fedora environment. > > I think you're going to go into much more explicit detail about what you > did before anyone can give you accurate help. Ok, what I did step by step: 1. Boot into a live Fedora environment. 2. Mount all the partitions that the Fedora installer created for me, i.e. boot, root and home 3. The home partitions was in the place I wanted it, and the correct size so I chose it to be my new all-in-one partition. 4. I created a new directory home in my partition and moved the user's home directories there 5. I copied everything from my root partition (except for the empty home dir) to the all-in-one partition. I figured this should be fine, since it wasn't running, so no dirt in proc. I'm not really sure about whether I should have omitted something, because I'm not such an expert. 6. In the previous step, an empty boot directory got transferred into the partition, so I just copied the contents of the boot partition there. 7. At this stage, the grub config was all wrong, so I updated it with grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg. It found the Fedora install and seemed to be by all accounts fine. 8. I updated /etc/fstab from having mounts with different UUIDs to having just /dev/sda5 at root (/), because that's what I have now. 9. Some googling/duckduckgoing led me to believe, that systemd-journald has something to do with the initramfs, mainly starting there. I don't really know what this means. The link is here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=835867. Also this step didn't have any effect as far as I can tell. And that's where I'm now. Some help would be appreciated. Daniel Landau -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
