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  • From: "Sheldon Isaac" <sisaac AT netaxs.com>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Cc: sheldonisaac AT myrealbox.com
  • Subject: Re: [BL] Install to HD, etc
  • Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 17:43:26 -0400

> --------------------
> mount /dev/hdb6 /mnt
> --------------------
> That partition will then be available under the /mnt directory.

Thanks a lot to you and the others who tried to help.

So far the first HD is fine. But cfdisk /dev/hdb gives the below:

hdb5 FAT16 378.37
hdb6 Win 95 FAT32 7633.06
hdb7 Win 95 FAT32 12551.78

Despite that, mount /dev/hdb7 /mnt doesn't work
(there isn't a hdb7 in /dev/ ; the highest one is hdb4)

Partition Table for /dev/hdb

---Starting--- ----Ending---- Start Number of
# Flags Head Sect Cyl ID Head Sect Cyl Sector Sectors
-- ----- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- -------- ---------
1 0x00 0 1 1 0x0F 254 63 1023 16065 40162500
2 0x00 0 0 0 0x00 0 0 0 0 0
3 0x00 0 0 0 0x00 0 0 0 0 0
4 0x00 0 0 0 0x00 0 0 0 0 0
5 0x00 1 1 1 0x06 254 63 46 63 738927
6 0x00 1 1 47 0x0B 254 63 974 63 14908257
7 0x00 1 1 975 0x0B 254 63 1023 63 24515127

Excerpts from dmesg:

Linux version 2.2.16 (root@bigkitty)
(gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release))
#22 Fri Jun 16 16:51:24 PDT 2000 Detected 300678 kHz processor.
<SNIP>

hda: IBM-DTTA-350640, 6197MB w/468kB Cache, CHS=790/255/63
hdb: IBM-DTLA-307020, 19623MB w/1916kB Cache, CHS=2501/255/63
hdc: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 4096kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.10
hdd: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
<SNIP>

Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 >
hdb: hdb1 < hdb5 hdb6 hdb7 >

<SNIP>

RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Freeing unused kernel memory: 60k freed

(some of the below might have been from my attempts to mount
/dev/hdb4 or whatever)

attempt to access beyond end of device
03:44: rw=0, want=1, limit=0
dev 03:44 blksize=1024 blocknr=0 sector=0 size=1024 count=1
FAT bread failed
UMSDOS: msdos_read_super failed, mount aborted.
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:44: rw=0, want=1, limit=0
dev 03:44 blksize=1024 blocknr=0 sector=0 size=1024 count=1
FAT bread failed
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:44: rw=0, want=1, limit=0
dev 03:44 blksize=1024 blocknr=0 sector=0 size=1024 count=1
FAT bread failed








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