On 06/09/2011 16:02, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:12:20 +0100 > Ron Leach<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Though I use XFCE on my netbook - and very pleased with that, by the >> way - I have been trying to also use the LiveCD to help me fix a LILO >> and RAID configuration on a desktop system.
> Well, since Fedora/RHEL have not used lilo in a long time, I assume > this is another distro? Well, I would wager you never lose at the game 'Cluedo'! Kevin, you're quite right; it is a Debian system. I reached for the Fedora LiveCD simply because I use Fedora daily - by choice - and I really like it, and I thought that perhaps I could check some configs quickly to see what might be going wrong. I just feel confident in using it. > I would suggest using rescue media for that > distro. It would be better suited to mounting things and letting you > fix lilo. After seeing this page http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/14/html/Installation_Guide/ap-rescuemode.html explaining that Fedora install media have a rescue facility - and after noticing that the LiveCD didn't - I did dig out my Debian install CD, and was relieved to see that it, too, does have a rescue entry. Though I wasn't sure it would help with a boot problem, it did give a very basic shell. I could mount the raid system and managed to see various config files but there didn't seem to be any LILO files. Out of desperation I typed lilo to see if the program itself might be runnable and might let me set up something and to my surprise, and delight, it fixed itself. I am going to dig further so that I understand LILO, I don't want to be caught out again. I'm not sure why Debian used LILO; during the original install I had asked for GRUB but that didn't work on a RAID 1 /boot partition (for some reason) but the alternative choice of LILO did work, so I had just let it do that. > > The details for how to mounting the system depend a lot. Is it lvm? > does Fedora even see the raid? > I guess from your comment that the LiveCD would not automatically mount the native machine's filesystems - I didn't even find an /etc/fstab that had any entries for the physical machines file systems (it only had entries for the LiveCD filesystem). The RAID is RAID 1 (dual discs, mirrored), running XFS filesystems; all partitions except swap are mirrored and the mirror is exactly the same size, configuration, and partition make-up. I am not sure what LVM is so perhaps this implies it is not LVM? Would you have expected the LiveCD to 'see' the system? That would mean entries in /etc/fstab wouldn't it? (I am not an expert at this.) Kevin, thanks for the advice, regards, Ron _______________________________________________ xfce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce
