Re: Fedora rescue

2020-08-15 Thread Geoffrey Leach
On Sat, 15 Aug 2020 06:38:41 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > On 2020-08-15 06:15, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > But what if the problem was with the root? LiveCD has that one > > mounted and in use. > > Yes, but that one isn't your system's root.  It is the squashfs > located on the LiveCD. > > So, if

Re: Fedora rescue

2020-08-14 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-08-15 06:15, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > But what if the problem was with the root? LiveCD has that one mounted > and in use. Yes, but that one isn't your system's root.  It is the squashfs located on the LiveCD. So, if you are using stand-alone partitions you can fsck as you normally do u

Re: Fedora rescue

2020-08-14 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 15:15:39 -0700 Geoffrey Leach wrote: > But what if the problem was with the root? LiveCD has that one mounted > and in use. I don't see any root mounted when I boot a live cd image. I suppose it mounts it when you are installing, but if you are just running the live image, yo

Fedora rescue

2020-08-14 Thread Geoffrey Leach
Recently I needed to fsck my /home partition to get the kernel to boot. No problem, as I was unable to boot from the LiveCD and umount the partition. But what if the problem was with the root? LiveCD has that one mounted and in use. In days gone by, there was a rescue mode on the Fedora install