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Subject: Re: diskless freebsd, can't mount local msdos disk
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Steven Kehlet wrote:
> 
> I'm booting FreeBSD 2.2.5 diskless with the kernel's BOOTP features.
> It detects the local hardware just fine (e.g. ethernet (obviously),
> hard drive, floppy, etc), but if I try to mount the local msdos disk
> like I would on a non-diskless station, it doesn't work.  Floppy
> operations (mounting, hexdumping, fdwriting) seem to work, however.
> Anyone know what's wrong, or have any suggestions what I could do?  If
> I can give any more information, please let me know.
> 
> wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa
> wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <WDC AC33200L>
> wd0: 3098MB (6346368 sectors), 6296 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S
> 
> # foreach i (1 2 3 4)
> ? mount_msdos /dev/wd0s$i /mnt

use mount -t msdos

does wd0 have 4 DOS slices on it?
what does '/sbin/fdisk' have to say about it?
do those partitions appear in /dev?


> ? end
> mount_msdos: /dev/wd0s1: Invalid argument
> mount_msdos: /dev/wd0s2: Invalid argument
> mount_msdos: /dev/wd0s3: Invalid argument
> mount_msdos: /dev/wd0s4: Invalid argument
> #
> 
> The msdos module loaded okay:
> 
> mockingbird:/home/kehlet-> modstat
> Type     Id Off Loadaddr Size Info     Rev Module Name
> MISC      0   0 f43ea000 0008 f43eb000   1 blank_saver_mod
> VFS       1   4 f442f000 001c f4435090   1 msdos
> 
> Weird, too, if I try to hexdump the raw disk, nothing comes up:
> 
> # hd -v /dev/rwd0 |more
> #
> 
> Thanks a ton,
> 
> Steve Kehlet
>