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["Jeff M." <mojaveplan AT icehouse.net>]

> I decided to repartition my laptop's hard drive in
> hopes of just installing BL3 and using loadlin to boot
> it.
>
> My partitions are;
> /dev/hda1 (dos)
> /dev/hda2 (linux type-82)
> /dev/hda3 (linux type-83-swap)
>
> Boot is toggled to /dev/hda1 (where Dos 6 is
> installed)
>
> However, I ran mke2fs /dev/hda2 and mkswap /dev/hda3
> (setting the hda3 partition to type 83-linux swap)
> then I executed swapon /dev/hda3, however when I type
> mount /hd /hda2 or /hd /dev/hda2 I get the message
> "mounting /hd on /dev/hda2 failed: Block device
> required.
>
> What did I do wrong?

Try mount /dev/hda2 /hd instead of the other way around.
Good luck.

> Pax,
>
> Christopher
>
> kf6snj AT lycos.com
> mrchrisrose AT yahoo.com

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