Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 14:22:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "m.ivens" <mark@ee.ucl.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bad bios parameter block? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808061421380.28098-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980806095323.862A-100000@localhost>
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On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, m.ivens wrote: > Hi, > I'm having problems mounting a FAT partition under 2.2.7-STABLE. I'm > sure it's because my brain has had a hardware failure and I've done > something stupid so I thought I'd ask you guys. We call these 'brain farts'. :) NOTE: > 508032 548352 1056383 wd2s3 4 extended 5 > but trying to mount wd2s3 yields: > > %mount -t msdos /dev/wd2s3 /mnt > msdos: /dev/wd2s3: Invalid argument > > and the message > mountmsdosfs(): bad bpb You can't directly mount extended partitions. Try mounting /dev/wd2s5 for the first logical disk there, wd2s6 for the second, and so on... Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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