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Old 05-01-2009   #1 (permalink)
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Can't mount drive to rescue files - help

Hey all,

SLES10 machine wont boot (posted about this in suse area) so have tried Opensuse live cd (mounted drive and can see partitions but not folders/files).

Burnt knoppix to CD...can anyone help me access my files with it (mount drive) so i can back them up to usb?

Thanks

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Old 05-02-2009   #2 (permalink)
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Open a terminal and post the output of
Code:
mount
sudo fdisk -l
-l has a small L rather than a one.
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y0 - I'm not at the machine right now but i'm familiar with those commands.

In the end I couldn't mount the drive correctly with live cd, nor knoppix - I think it was to do with LVM.

However, I got the server to boot by using the install DVD: install / other / boot with dvd. I could then access my files.

So got there in the end but, GRUB is fubbar'd O_o
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Once you get the system to boot you should be able to reinstall grub - can do this through yast or command line. Output of
Code:
su -
grub
find /boot/grub/menu.lst
should give correct partition for menu file
lets say it returns (hd0,0)
then do
Code:
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)
quit
Then try a system restart and see if the system can boot.
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