From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 12 04:23:51 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA02969 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 04:23:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mescalero.asd1.rl.ac.uk (mescalero.asd1.rl.ac.uk [130.246.170.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA02957 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 04:23:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tmb@mescalero.asd1.rl.ac.uk) Received: (from tmb@localhost) by mescalero.asd1.rl.ac.uk (8.9.1/8.9.1) id MAA48445; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 12:23:11 GMT (envelope-from tmb) Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 12:23:11 +0000 From: Mark Blackman To: David Banning Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't mount 2nd and 3rd slices of msdos drive Message-ID: <19990212122311.A48395@rcru.rl.ac.uk> References: <36C3C487.41C67EA6@worldy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <36C3C487.41C67EA6@worldy.com>; from David Banning on Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 01:04:55AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG D: and E: are almost certainly extended partitions right? extended partitions show up further on in the number sequence than you might initially guess. i.e. wd0s5 -- extended part. #1 (D) wd0s6 -- extended part. #2 (E) wd0s7 -- extended part. #3 (F) wd0s8 -- extended part. #4 (G) (this assumes that FreeBSD installed the appropriate device nodes s5-s8 at installation time). Don't know what's up if they're not extended partitions though. On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 01:04:55AM -0500, David Banning wrote: > Hello. I have Freebsd 2.2.8 and I have two IDE Drives. > > The first, all msdos is 6 gig, has it's space divided roughly equally > as C:, D: and E: > > The second, about 3.4 gig is all FreeBSD. > > I mount the first slice of Dos as mount_msdos /dev/wd0s1 /c > and everything is fine. > > Then I try mount_msdos /dev/wd0s2 /d for the second slice. > But I get the error; > > mountmsdosfs(): bad bpb > > Any idea what I can do to make this work? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Mark Blackman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message