On Thu, 18.07.13 17:11, James Hogarth (james.hogarth@gmail.com) wrote:
On 18 July 2013 16:51, Eric Smith brouhaha@fedoraproject.org wrote:
Maybe your question is poorly stated, then.
What I thought you asked was how to read Linux log files from a Windows installation, e.g., when Linux fails to boot.
This is indeed the question - so given you understood it so it seems I would say that it was not poorly stated.
In the past I've been able to do that using ext2fsd without much difficulty.
This will not work depending on ext4 options, if LVM is in use or if BTRFS is used which is of course now supported as an option in the installer.
Actually, it's worse. The driver requires you to turn of driver signature verification of Windows. That's just a huge mess. (Also, it doesn't support the current Windows version).
I don't think that using ext2fsd is possible "without much difficulty". It's great that such a tool exists, but it's a hacker tool, for somebody who is willing to alter his Windows installations in non-trivial ways.
I am pretty sure that just downloading an ISO of the latest Fedora livecd and dd'ing it to an USB disk is a ton more fun that the ext2fsd dance, and is a lot more comprehensive with its LVM, LUKS, btrfs support that pretty much just works.
Lennart