f8 boots!

[John Summerfield]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 17 December 2007, John Summerfield wrote:
>> Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> Now, I have a large corpus of email I'd like to transfer over to the f8
>>> install, but apparently the lack of a bios extension prevents the sata
>>> disk from being seen when booted to FC6.
>>>
>>> It would be much simpler if I could have MAKEDEV or udev, make
>>> a "/dev/VolGroup01" tree when fc6 is booted, however I can't see how that
>>> would be done.
>>>
>>> F8 does see the old drives, all are sdx as opposed to hdx drives, and I
>>> can mount the fc6 boot partition while running f8.  But my attempts to
>>> mount it all failed cuz there apparently can be only 1 VolGroup0X at a
>>> time.
>>>
>>> Can someone tell me how to mount the fc6 slash to a mountpoint of f8?
>>>
>>> Or how to mount the f8 VolGroup01 onto fc6?
>> man lvm
>>
> Doh!  I tried that, but since its lvm2 I used that and got nothing.  But, that 
> appears to be the tools page.  There is no mention of the word mount, nor is 
> there a mention of lvm in the mount manpage.  From there:
> 
>        -t vfstype
>               The argument following the -t is used to indicate the file 
> system type.  The file  system  types  which
>               are  currently  supported  include:  adfs, affs, autofs, cifs, 
> coda, coherent, cramfs, debugfs, devpts,
>               efs, ext, ext2, ext3, hfs, hpfs, iso9660, jfs, minix, msdos, 
> ncpfs, nfs, nfs4, ntfs, proc, qnx4, ramfs,
>               reiserfs,  romfs,  smbfs,  sysv,  tmpfs,  udf,  ufs, umsdos, 
> usbfs, vfat, xenix, xfs, xiafs.  Note that
>               coherent, sysv and xenix are equivalent and that xenix and 
> coherent will be removed at  some  point  in
>               the  future  �  use sysv instead. Since kernel version 2.1.21 
> the types ext and xiafs do not exist any-
>               more. Earlier, usbfs was known as usbdevfs.
> 
> No mention of lvm, and an attempted mount using ext3 fails, wrong fs message 
> or??.
> 
> So where is this actually covered?  I'm reticent to attempt editing fstab 
> until I know it works as I had a heck of a time recovering from a one 
> character typu in that once before, it will not skip a bad line and proceed 
> with the rest of the configuration.  Any error there appears to be fatal.

down near the bottom there's a list of other commands; likely renaming a 
volume group would get you out of trouble,,,,



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