Mounting an encypted Linux Partition in a live CD version of SUSE/KNOPPIX/???
Hi all, basically I installed SUSE 9.2 and created an encrypted home partition. Since then the Partition table has become utterly trashed, and I have tried accessing the partition using Suse Live CDs (9.2) but they dont boot, just give me some error about being unable to read the LBA table and each little yte of the screwed up partition table but I am 99% sure that the /home partition exists. How can I stop SUSE automatically trying to mount everything it sees, whether it is installed or a live CD/DVD. When I install Suse 9.2 it works ok TILL IT PROMPTS A REBOOT AT THE end then the stuff with the LBA comes up and I despair. In Puppy Linux/ Aurox/ Games Knoppix I can access data on other partitions but I need access to my /home. Thanks _________________________________________________________________ Use MSN Messenger to send music and pics to your friends http://messenger.msn.co.uk
On Monday 25 April 2005 4:38 pm, t4450950 OU wrote:
Hi all, basically I installed SUSE 9.2 and created an encrypted home partition. Since then the Partition table has become utterly trashed, and I have tried accessing the partition using Suse Live CDs (9.2) but they dont boot, just give me some error about being unable to read the LBA table and each little yte of the screwed up partition table but I am 99% sure that the /home partition exists.
How can I stop SUSE automatically trying to mount everything it sees, whether it is installed or a live CD/DVD. When I install Suse 9.2 it works ok TILL IT PROMPTS A REBOOT AT THE end then the stuff with the LBA comes up and I despair. In Puppy Linux/ Aurox/ Games Knoppix I can access data on other partitions but I need access to my /home. You can always boot into single user mode.
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Jerry Feldman
On 4/25/05, t4450950 OU
Hi all, basically I installed SUSE 9.2 and created an encrypted home partition. Since then the Partition table has become utterly trashed, and I have tried accessing the partition using Suse Live CDs (9.2) but they dont boot, just give me some error about being unable to read the LBA table and each little yte of the screwed up partition table but I am 99% sure that the /home partition exists.
How can I stop SUSE automatically trying to mount everything it sees, whether it is installed or a live CD/DVD.
Are you sure you tried with the SuSE Live CD? It is not supposed to mount anything automatically. You could also try to boot off a Knoppix CD. If you do get it to boot (and totally ignoring your major encryption issue) you can mount a partition even without the partition table IF you know the starting sector. I've forgotten the exact syntax, but something like: mount -lo -offset=(starting sector * 512) /dev/hda /mnt Note that hda is the full disk, not a reference to the partition. Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century
The Monday 2005-04-25 at 20:38 -0000, t4450950 OU wrote:
Hi all, basically I installed SUSE 9.2 and created an encrypted home partition. Since then the Partition table has become utterly trashed, and I have tried accessing the partition using Suse Live CDs (9.2) but they dont boot, just give me some error about being unable to read the LBA table and each little yte of the screwed up partition table but I am 99% sure that the /home partition exists.
You might be able to get it back using gpart.
How can I stop SUSE automatically trying to mount everything it sees, whether it is installed or a live CD/DVD. When I install Suse 9.2 it works ok TILL IT PROMPTS A REBOOT AT THE end then the stuff with the LBA comes up and I despair. In Puppy Linux/ Aurox/ Games Knoppix I can access data on other partitions but I need access to my /home.
Don't mention any of those partitions in /etc/fstab. Anything listed there will be, at least, checked. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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