From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 6 14:23:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA07547 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 14:23:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA07398 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 14:22:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA06028; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 14:22:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 14:22:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "m.ivens" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bad bios parameter block? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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