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[sindi keesan <keesan2 AT cyberspace.org>]

I also had to edit fstab when it set my DOS partition to ext2. 
This eliminated the error messages while booting.
I am also using DR-DOS, which calls my first primary partition (DOS) hda4.

Any idea what DR-DOS does to cause these problems?

I think we used PQ-MAGIC to partition, but it might have been DR-DOS
fdisk.

On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 qwms-avib AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Ron Clarke wrote:
> > 
> > fstab:
> > 
> > /dev/hda1    /      ext2   defaults  1  1
> 
> That tells the kernel to mount /dev/hda1 at /
> (the root filesystem) as an ext2 filesystem 
> with default settings.  The 1 at the end of 
> the line is the fsck flag.  It specifies that 
> the filesystem should be checked (by e2fsck).  
> 
> If /dev/hda1 is your DOS partition, then that line
> is very, very wrong.  
> 
> > (after I have mounted my C DOS drive to /c) when I
> > enter df, both my hard disks show up as
> > 
> > /dev/hda1      118194   32221   79870  29 %  /
> > /dev/hda1      515792  133880  381912  26 %  /c
> 
> That is definitely wrong.  You need to sort that
> out urgently (before something gets corrupted by
> the conflicting designation).  You need to determine
> which partition is actually DOS and which is ext2.
> Hopefully, this will tell you:
> --------
> fdisk -l
> --------
> Then edit /etc/fstab so that it shows the correct 
> location of the ext2 partition.
> 
> Are you using DrDOS, by any chance?  I had something
> similar happen to me using the DrDOS version of fdisk.
> 
> Cheers,
> Steven
> 
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