redhat-list Digest, Vol 55, Issue 24

[Mertens, Bram]

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-----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of mark
> Sent: donderdag 25 september 2008 23:55
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: redhat-list Digest, Vol 55, Issue 24
> 
> Patil, Manjiri S wrote:
> > Hi Mark , 
> > Thanks for the reply. I tried following 
> > Boot in Linux rescue mode. 
> > Skip when asked to mount filesystem. 
> > Fdisk -l 
> > This gives me /dev/sda1 as boot 
> > and /dev/sda2 as linux LVM
> > Mkdir /mnt
> > Mount /dev/sda2 -o rw /mnt
> > 
> > Error:Mounting /dev/sda2 on /mnt failed, no such file or directory 
> > 
> > Any thoughts???
> 
> Yup.
> fdisk /dev/sda
> p
> and look at the partition listing, to make sure that it 
> really is being seen as
> /dev/sda.
> 
> As a last resort, you could burn yourself a copy of knoppix, 
> and boot off that,
> which gives you a full-blown Linux, and then look more... It 
> usually can
> identify all hardware.

Couldn't it be that in rescue mode the LVM isn't activated?

/dev/sda2 isn't really the file system you're trying to mount, but
rather the physical volume.  You want to mount the logical volume of the
volume group created on this PV.  The LV will be something like
/dev/vg0/volX.


Try 'vgchange -an' and then mount the LV with something like mount
/dev/vg0/volX /mnt.

HTH

Bram