Diod you copy your new vmlinuz to your (win) loadlin dir ?
Eric
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pittman, Merle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 1:34 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: [newbie] Can't mount FAT32 LBA partition: invalid major or
> mi nor number...
>
>
> give the me the exact details you go through to try to moun the win
> partition. I had a problem but I got around it, I want to see if the
> problem is similar.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tim Hammerquist [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 10:06 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [newbie] Can't mount FAT32 LBA partition: invalid major or
> > minor number...
> >
> > I posted this to [expert] as well, but it went unanswered. Maybe this is
> > too simple for them? But I need help; this is infuriating!
> >
> > Here's my scenario:
> >
> > Running Win98SE on bottom 10GB of 20GB hard drive.
> > Installed Mandrake 6.1 on upper 10GB last December. Worked beautifully.
> > =)
> > Bought Mandrake 7 Complete and formatted and installed over 6.1 (didn't
> > upgrade).
> > Mandrake 7 will not mount the DOS/FAT32 partition (at boot or
> > otherwise). It
> > gives the error "/dev/hda1 has invalid major or minor...". Everything
> > listed in
> > /dev under hda lists major number as 3 and minor number corresponding to
> > partition. Kernel is located on /dev/hda3, FAT32 (LBA) on /dev/hda1. I
> > normally
> > boot from my config.sys using loadlin.exe, but /dev/hda1 can't be
> > mounted even
> > if I use the boot disk.
> >
> > Now when I went back to install 6.1 which worked fine before, it crashes
> > during
> > formatting /dev/hda3 as ext2.
> >
> > Has anyone had this problem? Is there a fix/patch/easy explanation, or
> > do I have
> > to backup my hd and reformat all partitions from scratch?
> >
> > BTW: Win98 on /dev/hda1 still works; no problems.
> >
> > TIA,
> > -Tim
>
>
