Hi all,
I have a serious problem in that I seem to have lost my hard drive
partitions.
My distro is fedora core 3.
I was trying to add a new removable drive, by doing the following:
# mkfs -t ext3 /dev/hdd1
then added a line to /etc/fstab thus:
/dev/hdd1 / ext3 pamconsole 1 1
Because I didn't want this drive to mount at boot, I didn't use the
auto option. Pamconsole was the option for devices that had to
manually be mounted, so I used that. (Maybe a serious error?)
Issuing the command <mount /hdd1> returned the message </ is busy, or
hdd1 does not exist>.
In order to not leave things in a messy state, I deleted the line I
had added to /etc/fstab, because this wasn't working and I figured I'd
need to learn some more about what I was attempting before proceeding.
However, after attempting to reboot, I am getting messages telling me
I have no linux partitions. This seems a bit weird, because in the
earliest part of the boot sequence from hard drive, the fedora logo
appears and all hard drives are listed before error messages appear.
The error messages that appear during boot are:
ERROR: /bin/lvm exited abnormally!
mount: error 6 mounting ext3
mount: error 2 mounting none
switchroot: mount failed: 22
umount: /introd/dev failed: 2
kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
I have booted into a shell using the rescue cd, and tried adding /hda1
to the /etc/fstab file thus:
/dev/hda1 ext3 auto 1 1
but got an error message saying this drive wasn't found. No doubt I'm
using poor syntax or something else is wrong with this entry. Using
the distro cd to boot returns a message <no linux partitions found>,
when I use the manually partition disks option. I haven't proceeded
past this point for fear of causing irreparable damage.
If anybody has suggestions for how to restore whatever I have broken,
please help. I would be very much obliged to any-one offering help. If
any other info is needed to clarify, please ask explicit questions.
Thanks,
clay.
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