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Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 23:25:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, V-Vega  wrote:

> hi....I run a dual hard disk system with a PCI controller.  When my system
> boots up and i run the sysinstall utility, the system doesnt recoginze any
> of my dos partitions. on my first drive and the slave drive.  when i boot
> with the GENERIC kernel configuration the same even occurs.  However, when
> i boot with the boot floppy it recognizes both hard drives...what may be
> the problem ???

I guess I don't understand what you're trying to do.

Why do you need to see the DOS partitions?  To mount them, do

mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s1c /mnt

to mount the dos partition on your first ide disk.  

If you get a warning, do umount /mnt and don't do it again, you risk
damaging your filesystems.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major