I just used "linux rescue" on a box with one single scsi hard drive /dev/sda with two partition sda1 -> linux and sda2 -> swap and it claimed that I don't have any linux partitions!? The scsi driver was loaded and just using "mkdir /mnt/sysimage; mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sysimage" worked fine. Please crate at least the mount point "/mnt/sysimage" even if no partitions are found or if the user chooses not to look for them. This does not hurt and it saves some typing.
This defect is considered SHOULD-FIX for Fairfax.
Well, if you just do `mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sysimage` the mountpoint will get automagically created if it doesn't exist. Was the filesystem unmounted cleanly before booting into rescue mode?
Was anything installed on the Linux partition?
The mountpoint might be crated but you can't use "tab";-) Moreover, if you mistype it your path won't be correct. No the fs was clean and the linux partition contained a fresh install (unfortunately anaconda failed to install lilo correctly....).
BTW, I just noted that if you have to drives hda and hdb which both contain linux installations it will mount the one from hdb rather than the one from hda. Shouldn't it check hd{a,b,c,d} in this order? This seems more resonable to me.
I would have expected if there are multiple linux filesystems present that contain a 'etc/fstab' file that you would be prompted for the correct partition to mount. I will test this.
I have not seen any problems detecting and asking the user which of multiple installs to rescue/upgrade. Have you tried this with RC2?
Any more info here?
Closing due to inactivity. Please reopen if you have more information.