On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 03:02:43PM +0800, Trace Green wrote: > Hello, I have one question to ask: > > When I try to use Knoppix 5.0 liveCD, I can mount any of > my partitoin using loopback device, that's say: > > mount -t vfat -o offset=`expr 234567821 "*" 512` /dev/hda > /mnt/hda5 as an example.
This isn't using the loopback device... The loopback device is for mounting filesystems contained within files on another filesystem. > But in my own Debian system . I can't do that, error > message is: > > /mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on > /dev/loop0, This error is generated by the exact line above? > and dmesg: /loop: loaded (max 8 devices) FAT: bogus number > of FAT structure VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on > dev loop0./ Has this output been mangled in the email, or is it verbatim? > you may ask me why I do this but don't use /dev/hda5 > directly. Because in my harddisk, there is a host > protected area(hpa) which is a hidden partition to store > some info. My laptop had something similar. I believe I could disable that behaviour in the BIOS. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]