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I have a RHEL 5 installed. I boot using a Linux preboot CD and take my machine into preboot. Now, in preboot, how should I detect that on which drive ...
  1. 01-22-2010 #1
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    How to detect Linux installed drive in preboot

    I have a RHEL 5 installed. I boot using a Linux preboot CD and take my machine into preboot. Now, in preboot, how should I detect that on which drive ( e.g. sda1/2or hda1/2 etc ) my RHEL5 resides?

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  2. 01-22-2010 #2
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    You can see your partition layout and filesystem types with the fdisk command:
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    fdisk -l
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  3. 01-27-2010 #3
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    Hi Ozar,
    No. That will just list out the drives on the system. How would I come to know that which of these drives e.g. sda5 contains the OS?
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  5. 02-03-2010 #5
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    I'm not sure if this is what your are looking for but, try "cat /etc/fstab" which will show mounted partitions. EXAMPLE: UUID=590697a3-98de-4238-a2b1-032903bfa667 / ext3 relatime 1 1
    This shows the partition UUID followed by the root symbol (/) which would be your operating systems files. Is that what you are looking for?
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  6. 02-05-2010 #6
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    yancek,
    I fired the cat /etc/fstab command in preboot environment but it just shows following line on the console

    proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
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