redhat-list Digest, Vol 55, Issue 24

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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.

	mark