On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Dave Phillips <dlphillips@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jeremy Jongepier wrote: >> >> This looks like Grub2 stuff but I found here F14 uses Grub legacy ... > > Hi Jeremy, > > Thank you for the detailed instructions. Unfortunately they didn't work. > /dev/sdb1 contains only the grub directory, the kernel image, and a few > other files. Neither /root nor /boot are present on sdb1. > > When I tried to mount /dev/sdb2 I got an error that said the filesystem > (LVM-something) was unrecognized. I find it fascinating that a file system > installed by Fedora 14 is not recognizable by Fedora 14. Sigh. > > Well, unless anyone has a better idea, I'm not wasting any more time on > Fedora, sad to say. the fundamental problem here is that Fedora uses LVM as its default partition type, and this is not supported by a variety of older/other linux distributions. you can mount the LVM disk, but not by just using mount(1). i've had to do this a few times, and it is *MINDBLOWINGLY* difficult. i don't even recall the command set i had to use. i think it was the md* tools (mdadm etc). the upside of using LVM is that you can endlessly reconfigure the partition(s) (bigger or smaller), including adding/removing other drives with almost no effort whatsoever. the downside is that if you just want the disk to be /dev/sdb<foo> ... its not so easy. i believe that fedora and/or redhat went through quite a long debate about this, and ultimately decided that the overall benefits of LVM vs. just ext(3|4) outweighed the drawbacks. obviously, this doesn't mean that its true in every case. i'd also guess that its true for most RedHat users and not true for most Fedora users. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
