Re: [Hampshire] post windows reinstall

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Author: drystan mazur
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] post windows reinstall
Alan Pope wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 19:23 +0000, drystan mazur wrote:
>> Hi I wonder if anyone can help me. I reinstalled Windoze as a gaiming
>> partion. I want to reinstall grub and am runing into problems.
>>
>> I have 3 partions
>> 1. Ntfs /dev/sda0
>
> You sure about that partition number? Usually partitions start at 1, not
> 0. Although grub numbering is a bit off, in everything else like fdisk
> it will be 1.
>
> What's the output of
>
> sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
>
> Also, have you seen:-
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>

Hi Alan
Ok does start at sda1 no sda0 in the list

device      boot    Start    end    Type
/dev/sda1    *    1    2550    HPFS/NTFS (Windoze)
/dev/sda2        2551    2563    linux    (Boot}
/dev/sda3        2564    19219    Linux LVM
/dev/sda4        19220    19452     swap


In following the web link I can't mount the root partiton as it is LVM.
well I cant with ubuntu live disc anyway >. unknown filesystem type
LVM2_member

How can I mount this partion ?

Many Thanks