-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 15 Feb 2003 02:58:29 -0800, Brandon Dorman wrote:
> (I realize this may be a bit inappropriate to the list, but here goes.) > Until yesterday I had a Quantum Fireball 13GB drive and a WD 40GB. Red > hat 8 is on the second, windows xp (fat32) was on the first. The > Quantum is about 4 years old and started losing data (doing scandisk > every time it started, making odd clicking noises... etc.) so I decided > it was time to buy a new one. > So I bought a new Seagate 80GB one. I installed it with no problem, > just set the jumper in the same place as the old Quantum, same cables > and everything. I knew I'd have to format it, so I first put in my RH > bootdisk and used Linux's fdisk to try and format it. But I couldn't > mount it. When I restarted, still nothing. > So I dug up a win98 bootdisk and tried MS's fdisk. I created a primary > partition, then extended with a logical dos drive. I still can't mount > it in linux. Well, how did you format it then? > Here's a brief snapshot of what happens right now: > (fdisk display when "print partition table". of /dev/hde1 > > /dev/hde1p1 1 100 803218+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) > /dev/hde1p2 101 254 1237005 5 Extended What do you get for "dmesg | grep hde"? > then... > (of course I su'd into root) > > [root@localhost Brandon]# mount -t vfat /dev/hde1 /c > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hde1, > or too many mounted file systems > [root@localhost Brandon]# mount -t vfat /dev/hde1p1 /c > mount: special device /dev/hde1p1 does not exist > > If I try to mount the extended partition, I get: > [root@localhost Brandon]# mount -t vfat /dev/hde2 /c > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hde2, > or too many mounted file systems > (aren't you trying to mount an extended partition, > instead of some logical partition inside?) This second error message gives you a hint. You tried to mount an extended partition, which is impossible. You could only mount a logical partition created inside an extended partition and after you had formatted it. - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+TkeH0iMVcrivHFQRAlDWAJ4lQ6KPfBcteYH7+4uSXyth55cicwCfR2eJ Erx0iLMs/yyscGomJA+AFJg= =WFHN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
