On Saturday 07 February 2009 16:24:51 Thomas H. George wrote: > On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 03:28:20PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On Saturday 07 February 2009 13:37:46 Thomas H. George wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 10:44:47AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > > On Saturday 07 February 2009 10:31:17 Thomas H. George wrote: > > > > Could you run "file debxo-awesome.ext3.img" can provide the output? > > > dragon:/data/olpc# file debxo-awesome.ext3.img > > > debxo-awesome.ext3.img: x86 boot sector; partition 1: ID=0x83, active, > > > starthead 1, startsector 32, 3848160 sectors dragon:/data/olpc# exit > > It looks like it is a whole-disk image -- the first part of it appears to > > be an MBR. I think you only need to skip 512 bytes... could > > you try: tail -c +513 debxo-awesome.ext3.img | file - > > and see if that reports that it found an ext3 filesystem. > dragon:/data/olpc# tail -c +513 debxo-awesome.ext3.img | file - > /dev/stdin: GRand Unified Bootloader stage1_5 version 3.2, identifier 0x2, > GRUB version 0.97, configuration file \377 dragon:/data/olpc# exit
Still probably not the beginning of a ext3 filesystem. The idea to fdisk the image is not bad. You might try: fdisk -l debxo-awesome.ext3.img To attempt to find the beginning of the ext3 filesystem. > Script started on Sat 07 Feb 2009 05:20:59 PM EST > dragon:/data/olpc# mount -o loop.offset=512 -t ext3 debxo-awesome.ext3.img ^ The '.' should be a ','. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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