Quoting Angus Claydon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Stefan Baums ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > > > hda1 contains what cfdisk calls "Win95 FAT32 (LBA)" (the lost > > > Win95 partition) > > > > > > hda4 contains a Debian 2.0 base system > > > > > > LILO was set up to automatically boot Win95. The only major thing we > > > did was install Ghostscript 6.01 for Windows, then next day when we > > > turned the computer back on, LILO got stuck in booting after printing > > > "LI" on screen. > > > > > > I then went into the Debian 2.0 system with a rescue disk, wrote a > > > series of lilo.conf's, ran lilo, rebooted. The result was always that > > > LILO got to the point where it told me > > > > > > Then I tried to mount the Win95 partition from GNU/Linux to save the > > > most important data, but the result of "mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt" > > > is: > > > > Just a thought, but does Debian 2.0 (this is hamm, released July 98) > > support FAT32 in its vfat, or only FAT16 with long filenames? > > Fat32 support seemed to creep rather quietly into linux kernels, > > judging by rgrep -i -r fat32 * > > > > Ie, have you mounted the partition successfully before from linux? > > > I've been grateful to learn about the fdisk /mbr thing though in my case its > closing the door after the horse has bolted ... result of using an immature > bootloader with poor documentation. > > I do regularly browse my win95 files mounting thusly: > mount -t msdos /dev/sdb1 /mnt
I'm not sure of the relevance of this. Stefan Baums ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said that his hda1 partition is FAT32. I can only suppose that your sdb1 partition is not. Cheers, > angus claydon > -- > _ _ > | | | | __ _ _ __ _ __ _ _ > | |_| |/ _` | '_ \| '_ \| | | | > | _ | (_| | |_) | |_) | |_| | > |_| |_|\__,_| .__/| .__/ \__, | > |_| |_| |___/ > _ _ __ __ _ _ _ _ > | \ | | _____ __ | \/ (_) | | ___ _ __ (_)_ _ _ __ ___ > | \| |/ _ \ \ /\ / / | |\/| | | | |/ _ \ '_ \| | | | | '_ ` _ \ > | |\ | __/\ V V / | | | | | | | __/ | | | | |_| | | | | | | > |_| \_|\___| \_/\_/ |_| |_|_|_|_|\___|_| |_|_|\__,_|_| |_| |_| _____________________? -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
