F-9 rescue disk?

Bob Goodwin bobgoodwin at wildblue.net
Sun Mar 22 22:17:30 UTC 2009


Langdon Stevenson wrote:
> Bob Goodwin wrote:
>> Yes, I've been typing a lot of things on the keyboard but obviously 
>> not the right things.
>>
>> The computer shows that /dev/sda and sdb are there but I can't mount 
>> them because it doesn't see my original /etc/fstab apparently?  Well 
>> even then I don't know how to address those drives because of the LVM?
>
>
> Bob, you might try this:
>
> 1. Boot from a Live Spin
>
> 2. Use the Logical Volume instructions here:
>
>    http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=214137
>
>    to mount the root and boot partitions then to re-install grub
>
> 3. Reboot server and all is well
>
>
> I posted this recently when I had an upgrade issue on an F8 machine.  
> My problem was that rescue disk boot does not give you the tools to 
> mount an LVM if "chroot" doesn't work.  Booting a Live Spin gives you 
> everything you need to mount up, fix the problem, then you can reboot.
>
> Just follow the link and you will (should) find everything you need.
>
> Langdon
>
Yes, that seems to get me what I need!  Now if I can just figure out how 
to use it!  I'll muddle through somehow.  At least now I can see my 
files!  Long shadows here, time to feed horses.

Thanks much.

Bob




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