FC3 "read only file system" after Ubuntu install
Duncan Lithgow
dlithgow at gmail.com
Tue Jun 14 20:34:22 UTC 2005
One more interesting thing to note is that qtparted under knoppix can
see everything, no trouble, strange since parted can't. So using the
/dev/hdb1 format I can see where each bit it.
Thanks for the help so far Phil
Duncan
On 6/14/05, Duncan Lithgow <dlithgow at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I presume the following is a quote, at least I made it look like one...
>
> Yes, it was a quote
>
> > Very difficult to give detailed help without system details such as
> > "fdisk -l" output with notations as to what is on which partition,
> > e2label output from relevant partitions, and fstab. The thread you
> > cited gives some clues/suggestions as will as the [mis]quoted message
> > above.
> >
> > In general, if you can boot to rescue mode, use e2label to display/fix
> > ext3 partition labels to avoid conflicts, and fix /boot/grub/grub.conf
> > and /etc/fstab to match; OR use device names rather than labels
> > in /boot/grub/grub.conf and /etc/fstab.
>
> Well, digging around got me no-where...:
>
> # fdisk /dev/hdb
> Unable to open /dev/hdb
>
> I get the same for /dev/hda. And fdisk -l gives:
>
> # fdisk -l
> cannot open /proc/partitions
>
> When I tried the same on Knoppix I get:
>
> knoppix at 1[knoppix]$ fdisk -l
> Can't open /dev/hda
> Can't open /dev/hdb
>
> So let's try e2label:
>
> # e2label /dev/hdb
> e2label: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/hdb
> Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock
>
> Ok, what about parted?
>
> knoppix at 1[knoppix]$ parted
> Error: No device found
> Retry/Cancel?
>
> Anyone have any ideas on what I should try now?
>
> Please help me get this straight...
> - I can't have two partitions with the label '/' (even though Ubuntu
> starts fine!)
> - I therefore should change one of the '/' labels to something else -
> what could that be?
> - After I've changed it I need to edit 'grub.conf' and '/etc/fstab'.
> Since it's tricky for me to even read those files just now, could you
> give me an example of which bit to edit? In 'grub.conf' I think it's
> something like root=Label='/' should change to root='/dev/hdb1 and
> something pretty similar in fstab.
>
> Am I getting the idea of this problem?
>
> Duncan
>
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