Hi, I've sent this to freebsd-questions but no luck yet. I am using freebsd 4.0. and failed to mount a Linux partition on the second hard disk. Could you please shed some light? Thanks very much Weiguang ================================================================== bash-2.04# fdisk /dev/ad1 ******* Working on device /dev/ad1 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=1653 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=1653 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 131,(Linux filesystem) start 63, size 8225217 (4016 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; end: cyl 511/ sector 63/ head 254 The data for partition 2 is: <UNUSED> The data for partition 3 is: <UNUSED> The data for partition 4 is: <UNUSED> bash-2.04# /bin/ls /dev/ad1* /dev/ad1 /dev/ad1c /dev/ad1f /dev/ad1s1 /dev/ad1s4 /dev/ad1a /dev/ad1d /dev/ad1g /dev/ad1s2 /dev/ad1b /dev/ad1e /dev/ad1h /dev/ad1s3 bash-2.04# mount -t ext2fs /dev/ad1s1 /mnt/work ext2fs: /dev/ad1s1: Invalid argument bash-2.04# uname -a FreeBSD newby-nfr.cs.ualberta.ca 4.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE #1: Tue May i386 unknown _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message