On 4/3/06, Paul Howarth <paul(a)city-fan.org> wrote:
>>>> One of these times we'll hit the magic
incantation. :-)
>>> I hope it will be soon! :-)
>>>
>>> # vgchange -a y
>>> 2 logical volume(s) in volume group "VolGroup00" now active
>>> # mount -t ext3 /dev/mapper/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /mnt/fc5
>>> mount: special device /dev/mapper/VolGroup00/LogVol00 does not exist
>>> #
>> Bingo now!
>>
>> It should be
>>
>> # mount -t ext3 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /mnt/fc5
>>
>> i.e., without 'mapper'.
>
> But still a problem:
>
> # grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/fc5 /dev/hda
> mkdir: cannot create directory `/mnt/fc5/boot/grub': Permission denied
> #
What are you actually trying to do?
Paul,
I was trying to use FC5 partition for the root directory of grub.
Meanwhile, I was successful with doing that not from the FC4 partition
(mounting FC5 partition) but doing that on FC5 directly.
Paul