Re: More problems with Kernel 2.4.10-pre12 and mounting

On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 01:33:54PM -0400, patrick wrote:

On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Ethan Benson wrote:

quoted

what happens if you run the following:

dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null bs=512 count=1

i am betting you will get a `No such device' error which means the
kernel thinks there is no second scsi device.

Nope, I get:

1+0 records in
1+0 records out

Related, my partition map for /dev/sdb is:

Partition   Dec
0           Apple driver
1           ??
2           ??
3           HFS
4           e2fs

I can mount /dev/sdb4.

This all points to a problem with Apple Partition Support..?

is it possible you have an x86 BIOS partition table on that disk as
well?  if mac-fdisk -l doesn't work then your mac partition table is
corrupt.  but if that does work but the kernel is getting other ideas
about your partitions you probably have both an x86 and mac partition
table (its actually possible for them to coexist, but its a gross and
uneeded hack).  what does /proc/partitions say?

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Ethan Benson wrote:

is it possible you have an x86 BIOS partition table on that disk as
well?  if mac-fdisk -l doesn't work then your mac partition table is
corrupt.  but if that does work but the kernel is getting other ideas
about your partitions you probably have both an x86 and mac partition
table (its actually possible for them to coexist, but its a gross and
uneeded hack).  what does /proc/partitions say?

But if the Mac partition table were corrupt, wouldn't it also be
skewed under my 2.2.18 Kernel as well?

Can't make heads or tails of it (I don't know what the columsn mean)
but here it is:

major minor  #blocks  name

   8     0    8971292 sda
   8     1         31 sda1
   8     2         27 sda2
   8     3         37 sda3
   8     4        100 sda4
   8     5        256 sda5
   8     6        256 sda6
   8     7    2661427 sda7
   8     8    5714420 sda8
   8     9     594722 sda9
   8    10          9 sda10
   8    16    4194157 sdb
   8    17         31 sdb1
   8    18         64 sdb2
   8    19    2000000 sdb3
   8    20    2194040 sdb4
   8    21         21 sdb5


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patrick m pritchard
disposable hero.


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