fc11 crashed [SOLVED]
Since the last update of mozilla firefox, my computer got stuck from time to time.
Such was the case when i came home from work today. Problem is that after reset, fedora does not boot up properly. im stuck with the message: Quote:
i dont know if any automatic updates were preformed while i was away. I had not made any system changes during that session. Tried too boot from 3 different kernels with the same result Dont really care if i have to reinstall fedora, but i wold like to save some of the files on that disk. Booted up windows, and tried a couple off programs for acsessing linux filesystems, but none of them supported ext4. Any ideas? //John |
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2. Check free drive space and permissions on both the system root directory and /tmp. Permissions: / should have: drwxr-xr-x root root /tmp should have: drwxrwxrwt root root Free space (you may have to chroot to use this command effectively): $ df -a (lists all storage devices and the free space of those that are mounted) Memory (this might not have much meaning while running the rescue disk): $ free Look for sane figures. And read this Note about respawning error message. |
Hi!
I am currently booting from the fedora 11 live cd... Problem is that the drive is not mounted. I can see the swap drive, but not the root drive. I did see it from linux reader under windows, but it could not identify the filesystem. //John |
The installed system is FEDORA11-FEL
*edit* just noticed something strange. the swap = sdb1 when trying to mount sdb2 i get the message: [root@localhost media]# mount /dev/sdb2 /media/fed mount: unknown filesystem type 'lvm2pv' df -a does not show the drive ether... |
lvm2 = LVM version2, pv = physical volume; bottom level in pv-vg-lvm
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ |
I browsed through the lvm howto, but it was all a bit much for me. Is there a good way of simply extracting my /home folder from the broken installation.
*edit* I can see the partition in lvm from the livecd, but still no clue on how to extract files... |
Still struggling...
I read about how running the livecd in rescue mod will mount a previously installed lvm system. But i dont understand how to set the kernel parameter: linux rescue. any suggestions or other ideas? |
ok... i solved the problem without booting in to rescue mode.
used this page as reference. Procedure: Boot up with livecd Start a console commands: #lvm vgscan #lvm vgchange -ay #lvm lvs #e2fsck -y /dev/vg_mygroupname/lv_root #mkdir /mnt/fed #mount /dev/vg_mygroupname/lv_root /mnt/fed copy the files from /mnt/fed Thanks //John |
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