14 Sep
2011
14 Sep
'11
6:35 p.m.
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Dave Phillips <dlphillips(a)woh.rr.com> wrote:
Jeremy Jongepier wrote:
the fundamental problem here is that Fedora uses LVM as its default
partition type, and this is not supported by a variety of older/other
linux distributions.
you can mount the LVM disk, but not by just using mount(1). i've had
to do this a few times, and it is *MINDBLOWINGLY* difficult. i don't
even recall the command set i had to use. i think it was the md* tools
(mdadm etc).
the upside of using LVM is that you can endlessly reconfigure the
partition(s) (bigger or smaller), including adding/removing other
drives with almost no effort whatsoever. the downside is that if you
just want the disk to be /dev/sdb<foo> ... its not so easy.
i believe that fedora and/or redhat went through quite a long debate
about this, and ultimately decided that the overall benefits of LVM
vs. just ext(3|4) outweighed the drawbacks. obviously, this doesn't
mean that its true in every case. i'd also guess that its true for
most RedHat users and not true for most Fedora users.
This looks like Grub2 stuff but I found here F14 uses Grub legacy ...
Hi Jeremy,
Thank you for the detailed instructions. Unfortunately they didn't work.
/dev/sdb1 contains only the grub directory, the kernel image, and a few
other files. Neither /root nor /boot are present on sdb1.
When I tried to mount /dev/sdb2 I got an error that said the filesystem
(LVM-something) was unrecognized. I find it fascinating that a file system
installed by Fedora 14 is not recognizable by Fedora 14. Sigh.
Well, unless anyone has a better idea, I'm not wasting any more time on
Fedora, sad to say.