On 2005-07-13 23:29:56 +0000 (Wed, Jul), aabb wrote: > I use 2 partitions for Windows 98, hda1 and hda5. I set both up as type > "c" (fat32 LBA) during my gentoo installation, using fdisk. The entries > in /etc/fstab are almost identical: > > /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat umask=0,noexec 0 0 > /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat umask=0,noexec 0 0 > > Yet hda1 mounts with no problems, whereas hda5 doesn't. If I execute > "mount /mnt/win_d" I get the error: > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda5, > or too many mounted file systems > > I tried various combinations (such as "mount -t vfat /dev/hda5 > /mnt/win_d") and always get the same error. The only differences between > the 2 partitions that I can think of are: >
Check any messages in dmesg output and your syslog file (/var/log/messages or /var/log/everything/current) after you try to mount /dev/hda5. Usually the winner is the lack of necessary encoding in kernel: File Systems -> Native Language Support -> ... I assume that /dev/hda5 _HAS_ proper FAT filesystem on it.. ;-) HTH -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by 'grep -i virus $MESSAGE' Trust me.
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