<div dir="ltr"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Hi folks,</font><div><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">I really screwed the pooch on this one. I have two issues: 1) how to use GRUB recovery console and 2) non-bootable LiveUSB. So; here's my first issue. I have two hard drives and my original setup was:</font></div>
<div><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">* sda1 - windows (marked as boot)</font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">* sda2 - /boot</font></div><div>
<font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">* sda3 - lvm (fedora)</font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">* sdb1 - data</font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">With the release of Fedora 18 I figured I'll finally remove my Windows partition and turn it into a home directory. I fire up gparted and do just that. I'm not familiar with UUID so I simply changed the "label" to "home." I then use rsync to copy my existing /home directory into the new partition. All seems well...</font></div>
<div><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">I reboot and after GRUB selects the latest instance of Fedora 17 I'm sent to some sort of recovery mode. I can only log in as root. My data partition is still mounted, but my newly created home partition no longer shows any data in it. I wonder if it has something to do with me changing it from NTFS to ext4.</font></div>
<div><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Either way I'm thinking that my GRUB is pointing to the wrong partition and stupidly run "grub install /dev/sda1". Now when I reboot and GRUB fires it immediately goes into a GRUB recovery console and I'm completely lost at this point.</font></div>
<div><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">At this point I feel I've gone way down into the rabbit hole. I dont' mind losing the home directories since my data partition is still functioning. I want to just start fresh and do a clean install of Fedora 18. My main beef is I can't boot from the newly created Fedora 18 LiveUSB. It works on my laptop, but not on my desktop. When in GRUB recovery I ran "grub> usb" and it's supposed to show any USB's plugged in, but nothing shows up.<br clear="all">
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