Re: [newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system
On Monday 12 January 2004 04:21 am, Peter Simko wrote: Right. That's because there are no Linux partitions on hda. There probably never will be, but I still want to be able to mount that drive from Linux in order to access the data that resides there. I also need to recognize it in order to run LILO so I can start playing around with my own kernels. you might find more help if you stop 'top posting', as it makes it rather hard to follow what has and has not been said and done. see the BOTTOM for the rest of my comments. E. Hines wrote: I see linux partitions only on /dev/hdb (hdb2,hdb3, and hdb4). You have no Linux partitions mounting on hdaX at all. You need to figure out which partition is the linux partition on hda (as root# fdisk -l /dev/hda is your friend) and create manual entries for it: /dev/hdaX /some_name ext2 rw 0 0 I have one that looks like this: /dev/hda9 /backup ext2 defaults 1 2 On Sunday 11 January 2004 11:39 am, Peter Simko wrote: As requested: # /etc/mtab /dev/hdb2 / ext2 rw 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0 none /dev devfs rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 /dev/hdb4 /home ext2 rw 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom supermount ro,dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /dev/hdb5 /mnt/win_f vfat rw 0 0 /dev/hdb6 /mnt/win_g vfat rw 0 0 none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw,devmode=0664,devgid=43 0 0 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro 0 0 #/etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information # # block devmount pointtypeoptionsdump pass #-- --- --- /dev/hdb2/ext2defaults11 none /dev/ptsdevptsmode=062000 none /dev/shmtmpfsdefaults00 /dev/hdb4/homeext2defaults12 none/mnt/cdromsupermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,0 0 /dev/hdd/mnt/cdrom2iso9660 iocharset=iso8859-1,ro,nosuid,noauto,exec,user,nodev0 0 /dev/fd0/mnt/floppyvfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,nosuid,user,noauto,nodev,codepage=850,un hi de 0 0 /dev/hda1/mnt/win_cvfatdefaults00 /dev/hdb5 /mnt/win_f vfatdefaults 00 /dev/hda2 /mnt/win_dvfatdefaults00 /dev/hdb6 /mnt/win_gvfatdefaults00 /dev/hda3 /mnt/win_evfatdefaults00 none /procprocdefaults00 /dev/hdb3swapswapdefaults00 I'm in the middle of playing around with my CDRW drive too, so that entry may look weird. Pete et wrote: On Sunday 11 January 2004 06:17 am, E. Hines wrote: On Saturday 10 January 2004 06:01 pm, Peter Simko wrote: The hda is working fine. It's the master on a dual-boot system and has the XP OS and most of my data on it. It shows up in BIOS during boot just fine. The hardware also seems to be detected in dmesg, but no drivers are available. And I just double checked the jumper and it's set to 'master', not cable select. post (as root, without the quotes, in a text consol) cat /etc/mtab and cat /etc/fstab well, it is pretty obvious that you don't have any entry for hda in your fstab, but the reason it would not be found by diskdrake is beyond me. are you absolutly positive that you are looking for the correct tab in diskdrake? have you tried ranish? or partition majic just to see what they say about the part table? (don't let PM fix it if you have anything other than ext2 and M$ filesystems). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system
On Sunday 11 January 2004 08:21 pm, Peter Simko wrote: Right. That's because there are no Linux partitions on hda. There probably never will be, but I still want to be able to mount that drive from Linux in order to access the data that resides there. I also need to recognize it in order to run LILO so I can start playing around with my own kernels. Sorry, I was under the impression you were trying to mount a linux partition that existed on hda. Please accept my apologies. fstab shows what can be (and is, in most cases) mounted. /etc/mtab shows what is mounted. Could be a permissions problem, or could be a problem with 8.2. You've attempted to mount the windows partition from the command line, both as user and as root and have failed with an error to the effect that the partition doesn't exist? Is lilo your boot manager? Does dmesg give any errors during bootup? Could you boot with Knoppix or pclinux OS and see if the windows partition is recognized? If you are getting tired of this, it might be a good time to upgrade (8.2 came with quite a few problems, IIRC. I didn't have any, but many users did. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system
PMFJI asking a dumb question, but isn't the master on the 2nd IDE channel automatically hdc ?? Bob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system
Yes, that's a pretty accurate description of what happened, except that I'm running 8.2. To restore the links I ran mknod disc b 3 0 in /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0 and similar commands for the partitions. Then I linked them all back to /dev using ln -s path hda1, etc. That didn't work, and here I am. bascule wrote: have you lost the link to the drive if you are using devfs? i don't remember the earlier posts but if you have 9.2 and are using devfs then you will find that /dev/hda etc are symbolic links, i.e.: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bascule]$ ls -l /dev/hda lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 32 Jan 9 12:13 /dev/hda - ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc [EMAIL PROTECTED] bascule]$ ls -l /dev/hda1 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 33 Jan 9 12:13 /dev/hda1 - ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 bascule On Sunday 11 Jan 2004 3:11 am, Troy T. Hall wrote: The hda is working fine. It's the master on a dual-boot system and has the XP OS and most of my data on it. It shows up in BIOS during boot just fine. The hardware also seems to be detected in dmesg, but no drivers are available. And I just double checked the jumper and it's set to 'master', not cable select. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system
On Sunday 11 January 2004 08:44 am, Bob Read wrote: PMFJI asking a dumb question, but isn't the master on the 2nd IDE channel automatically hdc ?? Bob Yes, but with two more caveats. It should be on the end connector of the IDE ribbon, and attention must be paid to getting the pin1 orientation correct (the red stripe side of the cable). Mother board ide2 slave master |__|_| Actually it's not ide2, but that's a common usage. The ports are more correctly termed as ide0 (1st) and ide1 (2nd). -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system
On Sunday 11 January 2004 06:17 am, E. Hines wrote: On Saturday 10 January 2004 06:01 pm, Peter Simko wrote: The hda is working fine. It's the master on a dual-boot system and has the XP OS and most of my data on it. It shows up in BIOS during boot just fine. The hardware also seems to be detected in dmesg, but no drivers are available. And I just double checked the jumper and it's set to 'master', not cable select. post (as root, without the quotes, in a text consol) cat /etc/mtab and cat /etc/fstab Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system
As requested: # /etc/mtab /dev/hdb2 / ext2 rw 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0 none /dev devfs rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 /dev/hdb4 /home ext2 rw 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom supermount ro,dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /dev/hdb5 /mnt/win_f vfat rw 0 0 /dev/hdb6 /mnt/win_g vfat rw 0 0 none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw,devmode=0664,devgid=43 0 0 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro 0 0 #/etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information # # block devmount pointtypeoptionsdump pass #-- --- --- /dev/hdb2/ext2defaults11 none /dev/ptsdevptsmode=062000 none /dev/shmtmpfsdefaults00 /dev/hdb4/homeext2defaults12 none/mnt/cdromsupermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,0 0 /dev/hdd/mnt/cdrom2iso9660 iocharset=iso8859-1,ro,nosuid,noauto,exec,user,nodev0 0 /dev/fd0/mnt/floppyvfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,nosuid,user,noauto,nodev,codepage=850,unhide 0 0 /dev/hda1/mnt/win_cvfatdefaults00 /dev/hdb5 /mnt/win_f vfatdefaults 00 /dev/hda2 /mnt/win_dvfatdefaults00 /dev/hdb6 /mnt/win_gvfatdefaults00 /dev/hda3 /mnt/win_evfatdefaults00 none /procprocdefaults00 /dev/hdb3swapswapdefaults00 I'm in the middle of playing around with my CDRW drive too, so that entry may look weird. Pete et wrote: On Sunday 11 January 2004 06:17 am, E. Hines wrote: On Saturday 10 January 2004 06:01 pm, Peter Simko wrote: The hda is working fine. It's the master on a dual-boot system and has the XP OS and most of my data on it. It shows up in BIOS during boot just fine. The hardware also seems to be detected in dmesg, but no drivers are available. And I just double checked the jumper and it's set to 'master', not cable select. post (as root, without the quotes, in a text consol) cat /etc/mtab and cat /etc/fstab Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system
I see linux partitions only on /dev/hdb (hdb2,hdb3, and hdb4). You have no Linux partitions mounting on hdaX at all. You need to figure out which partition is the linux partition on hda (as root# fdisk -l /dev/hda is your friend) and create manual entries for it: /dev/hdaX /some_name ext2 rw 0 0 I have one that looks like this: /dev/hda9 /backup ext2 defaults 1 2 On Sunday 11 January 2004 11:39 am, Peter Simko wrote: As requested: # /etc/mtab /dev/hdb2 / ext2 rw 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0 none /dev devfs rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 /dev/hdb4 /home ext2 rw 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom supermount ro,dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /dev/hdb5 /mnt/win_f vfat rw 0 0 /dev/hdb6 /mnt/win_g vfat rw 0 0 none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw,devmode=0664,devgid=43 0 0 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro 0 0 #/etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information # # block devmount pointtypeoptionsdump pass #-- --- --- /dev/hdb2/ext2defaults11 none /dev/ptsdevptsmode=062000 none /dev/shmtmpfsdefaults00 /dev/hdb4/homeext2defaults12 none/mnt/cdromsupermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,0 0 /dev/hdd/mnt/cdrom2iso9660 iocharset=iso8859-1,ro,nosuid,noauto,exec,user,nodev0 0 /dev/fd0/mnt/floppyvfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,nosuid,user,noauto,nodev,codepage=850,unhi de 0 0 /dev/hda1/mnt/win_cvfatdefaults00 /dev/hdb5 /mnt/win_f vfatdefaults 00 /dev/hda2 /mnt/win_dvfatdefaults00 /dev/hdb6 /mnt/win_gvfatdefaults00 /dev/hda3 /mnt/win_evfatdefaults00 none /procprocdefaults00 /dev/hdb3swapswapdefaults00 I'm in the middle of playing around with my CDRW drive too, so that entry may look weird. Pete et wrote: On Sunday 11 January 2004 06:17 am, E. Hines wrote: On Saturday 10 January 2004 06:01 pm, Peter Simko wrote: The hda is working fine. It's the master on a dual-boot system and has the XP OS and most of my data on it. It shows up in BIOS during boot just fine. The hardware also seems to be detected in dmesg, but no drivers are available. And I just double checked the jumper and it's set to 'master', not cable select. post (as root, without the quotes, in a text consol) cat /etc/mtab and cat /etc/fstab Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system
Right. That's because there are no Linux partitions on hda. There probably never will be, but I still want to be able to mount that drive from Linux in order to access the data that resides there. I also need to recognize it in order to run LILO so I can start playing around with my own kernels. E. Hines wrote: I see linux partitions only on /dev/hdb (hdb2,hdb3, and hdb4). You have no Linux partitions mounting on hdaX at all. You need to figure out which partition is the linux partition on hda (as root# fdisk -l /dev/hda is your friend) and create manual entries for it: /dev/hdaX /some_name ext2 rw 0 0 I have one that looks like this: /dev/hda9 /backup ext2 defaults 1 2 On Sunday 11 January 2004 11:39 am, Peter Simko wrote: As requested: # /etc/mtab /dev/hdb2 / ext2 rw 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0 none /dev devfs rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 /dev/hdb4 /home ext2 rw 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom supermount ro,dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /dev/hdb5 /mnt/win_f vfat rw 0 0 /dev/hdb6 /mnt/win_g vfat rw 0 0 none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw,devmode=0664,devgid=43 0 0 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro 0 0 #/etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information # # block devmount pointtypeoptionsdump pass #-- --- --- /dev/hdb2/ext2defaults11 none /dev/ptsdevptsmode=062000 none /dev/shmtmpfsdefaults00 /dev/hdb4/homeext2defaults12 none/mnt/cdromsupermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,0 0 /dev/hdd/mnt/cdrom2iso9660 iocharset=iso8859-1,ro,nosuid,noauto,exec,user,nodev0 0 /dev/fd0/mnt/floppyvfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,nosuid,user,noauto,nodev,codepage=850,unhi de 0 0 /dev/hda1/mnt/win_cvfatdefaults00 /dev/hdb5 /mnt/win_f vfatdefaults 00 /dev/hda2 /mnt/win_dvfatdefaults00 /dev/hdb6 /mnt/win_gvfatdefaults00 /dev/hda3 /mnt/win_evfatdefaults00 none /procprocdefaults00 /dev/hdb3swapswapdefaults00 I'm in the middle of playing around with my CDRW drive too, so that entry may look weird. Pete et wrote: On Sunday 11 January 2004 06:17 am, E. Hines wrote: On Saturday 10 January 2004 06:01 pm, Peter Simko wrote: The hda is working fine. It's the master on a dual-boot system and has the XP OS and most of my data on it. It shows up in BIOS during boot just fine. The hardware also seems to be detected in dmesg, but no drivers are available. And I just double checked the jumper and it's set to 'master', not cable select. post (as root, without the quotes, in a text consol) cat /etc/mtab and cat /etc/fstab Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system
On Friday 09 January 2004 07:30 pm, Peter Simko wrote: Nope, hda doesn't show up there either, just the hdb device. This is really annoying the hell out of me. I used to run both HDDs from an ATA controller card, but I got rid of that and put both drives on IDE 0 to simplify my system. That changed hdf to hdb without a problem (with appropriate changes to fstab), but somehow hde just went 'poof' and disappeared instead of showing up again as hda. A few things I can think of: hda should be jumpered for Master and it should be (if I recall correctly, someone will correct me if I'm wrong) on the end of the IDE cable. The slave drive should be attached to the center cable connector. Does your bios show both drives being detected and identified correctly? (assuming you don't have a crippled bios like a Gateway or some such). Do you get a message at the first boot screen (right after memory test) that shows the Master and Slave drive being identified? Have you tried moving hdb to ide1, and having hda alone on ide0? Tried booting with only hda plugged in? Lots of stuff you can do to determine what the problem is, but it acts like: 1. hda has no power plugged into it 2. hda is jumpered wrong, or in the wrong position on the cable 3. the IDE cable is bad, not plugged in, or plugged in wrong--red marker not to pin 1 (not impossible to do with some cable/drive combos) 4. the hd has gone bad Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system
On Saturday 10 January 2004 07:31, E. Hines wrote: On Friday 09 January 2004 07:30 pm, Peter Simko wrote: Nope, hda doesn't show up there either, just the hdb device. This is really annoying the hell out of me. I used to run both HDDs from an ATA controller card, but I got rid of that and put both drives on IDE 0 to simplify my system. That changed hdf to hdb without a problem (with appropriate changes to fstab), but somehow hde just went 'poof' and disappeared instead of showing up again as hda. A few things I can think of: hda should be jumpered for Master and it should be (if I recall correctly, someone will correct me if I'm wrong) on the end of the IDE cable. The slave drive should be attached to the center cable connector. Does your bios show both drives being detected and identified correctly? (assuming you don't have a crippled bios like a Gateway or some such). Do you get a message at the first boot screen (right after memory test) that shows the Master and Slave drive being identified? Have you tried moving hdb to ide1, and having hda alone on ide0? Tried booting with only hda plugged in? Lots of stuff you can do to determine what the problem is, but it acts like: 1. hda has no power plugged into it 2. hda is jumpered wrong, or in the wrong position on the cable 3. the IDE cable is bad, not plugged in, or plugged in wrong--red marker not to pin 1 (not impossible to do with some cable/drive combos) 4. the hd has gone bad Above all, I would say make sure that neither drive is jumpered for Cable Select. It causes far more problems than it solves. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system
On Saturday 10 January 2004 03:30 am, Peter Simko wrote: et wrote: On Friday 09 January 2004 02:05 am, Peter Simko wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 08 January 2004 07:39 pm, Peter Simko wrote: I'm running the old Mandrake 8.2 distro on a Linux-WinXP dual boot machine. My hda drive consists of three partitions, all vfat and used for the XP side of the box. Recently (after making some hardware configuration changes) the Linux side has been unable to mount the hda drive. At first, it wasn't even listed in the /dev directory, so I manually created the block device nodes in /dev/ide0/host0/target0/bus0/lun0 using mknod hda b 3 0 for the disk and mknod hda1 b 3 1, etc for the three partitions. I then linked the devices back up to /dev. My problem now is that I can't mount the devices and keep getting mount: /dev/hda1 is not a valid block device. Looking through dmesg I also get a lot of hda: driver not present warnings during boot, even though the BIOS is definitely seeing the drive. Anyone know how I can make my hda drive mountable again? Sounds to me like you have a loose or faulty IDE cable. I had this happen once where the cable was just loose enough to cause all kinds of disk errors, but enough of the pins were connected to ID the drive to the BIOS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Oops, should have mentioned that the XP side of the box works fine, and XP is located on hda. diskdrake as root... me boyo,,, you should be able to make it mount from the gui Nope, hda doesn't show up there either, just the hdb device. This is really annoying the hell out of me. I used to run both HDDs from an ATA controller card, but I got rid of that and put both drives on IDE 0 to simplify my system. That changed hdf to hdb without a problem (with appropriate changes to fstab), but somehow hde just went 'poof' and disappeared instead of showing up again as hda. well then set the jumper from cable select to master on the back of the hda drive. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 10 January 2004 07:31, E. Hines wrote: On Friday 09 January 2004 07:30 pm, Peter Simko wrote: Nope, hda doesn't show up there either, just the hdb device. This is really annoying the hell out of me. I used to run both HDDs from an ATA controller card, but I got rid of that and put both drives on IDE 0 to simplify my system. That changed hdf to hdb without a problem (with appropriate changes to fstab), but somehow hde just went 'poof' and disappeared instead of showing up again as hda. A few things I can think of: hda should be jumpered for Master and it should be (if I recall correctly, someone will correct me if I'm wrong) on the end of the IDE cable. The slave drive should be attached to the center cable connector. Does your bios show both drives being detected and identified correctly? (assuming you don't have a crippled bios like a Gateway or some such). Do you get a message at the first boot screen (right after memory test) that shows the Master and Slave drive being identified? Have you tried moving hdb to ide1, and having hda alone on ide0? Tried booting with only hda plugged in? Lots of stuff you can do to determine what the problem is, but it acts like: 1. hda has no power plugged into it 2. hda is jumpered wrong, or in the wrong position on the cable 3. the IDE cable is bad, not plugged in, or plugged in wrong--red marker not to pin 1 (not impossible to do with some cable/drive combos) 4. the hd has gone bad Above all, I would say make sure that neither drive is jumpered for Cable Select. It causes far more problems than it solves. Anne The hda is working fine. It's the master on a dual-boot system and has the XP OS and most of my data on it. It shows up in BIOS during boot just fine. The hardware also seems to be detected in dmesg, but no drivers are available. And I just double checked the jumper and it's set to 'master', not cable select. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system
Don't know if this is relevant or not but I used to have a problem with one of my hd's where it did not won't to co-exist on the same controller channel as another. If it was all by itself on the controller channel it would be seen in linux just fine and the correct size. But when I put it with another drive, ESPECIALLY a seagate drive, it would change its drive geometry. Or not work at all. I eventually segregated it to its own box and it lives there still. I've also seen issues where if you use a cable that is not properly rated for the controller channel ( typically ide0 ) it will cause issues. Hardware can be frustrating sometimes. Troy - Original Message - From: Peter Simko [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 2001 N6REJ Subject: Re: [newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 10 January 2004 07:31, E. Hines wrote: On Friday 09 January 2004 07:30 pm, Peter Simko wrote: Nope, hda doesn't show up there either, just the hdb device. This is really annoying the hell out of me. I used to run both HDDs from an ATA controller card, but I got rid of that and put both drives on IDE 0 to simplify my system. That changed hdf to hdb without a problem (with appropriate changes to fstab), but somehow hde just went 'poof' and disappeared instead of showing up again as hda. A few things I can think of: hda should be jumpered for Master and it should be (if I recall correctly, someone will correct me if I'm wrong) on the end of the IDE cable. The slave drive should be attached to the center cable connector. Does your bios show both drives being detected and identified correctly? (assuming you don't have a crippled bios like a Gateway or some such). Do you get a message at the first boot screen (right after memory test) that shows the Master and Slave drive being identified? Have you tried moving hdb to ide1, and having hda alone on ide0? Tried booting with only hda plugged in? Lots of stuff you can do to determine what the problem is, but it acts like: 1. hda has no power plugged into it 2. hda is jumpered wrong, or in the wrong position on the cable 3. the IDE cable is bad, not plugged in, or plugged in wrong--red marker not to pin 1 (not impossible to do with some cable/drive combos) 4. the hd has gone bad Above all, I would say make sure that neither drive is jumpered for Cable Select. It causes far more problems than it solves. Anne The hda is working fine. It's the master on a dual-boot system and has the XP OS and most of my data on it. It shows up in BIOS during boot just fine. The hardware also seems to be detected in dmesg, but no drivers are available. And I just double checked the jumper and it's set to 'master', not cable select. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.560 / Virus Database: 352 - Release Date: 1/8/04 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system
have you lost the link to the drive if you are using devfs? i don't remember the earlier posts but if you have 9.2 and are using devfs then you will find that /dev/hda etc are symbolic links, i.e.: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bascule]$ ls -l /dev/hda lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 32 Jan 9 12:13 /dev/hda - ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc [EMAIL PROTECTED] bascule]$ ls -l /dev/hda1 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 33 Jan 9 12:13 /dev/hda1 - ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 bascule On Sunday 11 Jan 2004 3:11 am, Troy T. Hall wrote: The hda is working fine. It's the master on a dual-boot system and has the XP OS and most of my data on it. It shows up in BIOS during boot just fine. The hardware also seems to be detected in dmesg, but no drivers are available. And I just double checked the jumper and it's set to 'master', not cable select. -- Pets are always a great help in times of stress. And in times of starvation too, o'course. (Small Gods) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system
On Saturday 10 January 2004 06:01 pm, Peter Simko wrote: The hda is working fine. It's the master on a dual-boot system and has the XP OS and most of my data on it. It shows up in BIOS during boot just fine. The hardware also seems to be detected in dmesg, but no drivers are available. And I just double checked the jumper and it's set to 'master', not cable select. What I really think, now, is your /etc/fstab has no entries for a Linux partition on /dev/hdaX. If Linux boots, take a peek at fstab and see where Windows is being mounted (should be hda1), and if you have any entries for Linux filesystems on hda. The first linux partition of hda should say something similar to this example: /dev/hda5 /backup reiserfs noatime,rw,user,exec,auto 1 1 What the above line says is that a partition of type reiserfs, named /backup exists at the location 5 on disk hda, and is mounted read and write, by any user, at bootup. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system
and as root#fdisk -l /dev/hda will give a complete list of the partitions . and what their formatting is and as root#fdisk -l will give info about what the symbolic links should be e. On Saturday 10 January 2004 08:07 pm, bascule wrote: have you lost the link to the drive if you are using devfs? i don't remember the earlier posts but if you have 9.2 and are using devfs then you will find that /dev/hda etc are symbolic links, i.e.: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bascule]$ ls -l /dev/hda lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 32 Jan 9 12:13 /dev/hda - ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc [EMAIL PROTECTED] bascule]$ ls -l /dev/hda1 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 33 Jan 9 12:13 /dev/hda1 - ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 bascule Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system
et wrote: On Friday 09 January 2004 02:05 am, Peter Simko wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 08 January 2004 07:39 pm, Peter Simko wrote: I'm running the old Mandrake 8.2 distro on a Linux-WinXP dual boot machine. My hda drive consists of three partitions, all vfat and used for the XP side of the box. Recently (after making some hardware configuration changes) the Linux side has been unable to mount the hda drive. At first, it wasn't even listed in the /dev directory, so I manually created the block device nodes in /dev/ide0/host0/target0/bus0/lun0 using mknod hda b 3 0 for the disk and mknod hda1 b 3 1, etc for the three partitions. I then linked the devices back up to /dev. My problem now is that I can't mount the devices and keep getting mount: /dev/hda1 is not a valid block device. Looking through dmesg I also get a lot of hda: driver not present warnings during boot, even though the BIOS is definitely seeing the drive. Anyone know how I can make my hda drive mountable again? Sounds to me like you have a loose or faulty IDE cable. I had this happen once where the cable was just loose enough to cause all kinds of disk errors, but enough of the pins were connected to ID the drive to the BIOS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Oops, should have mentioned that the XP side of the box works fine, and XP is located on hda. diskdrake as root... me boyo,,, you should be able to make it mount from the gui Nope, hda doesn't show up there either, just the hdb device. This is really annoying the hell out of me. I used to run both HDDs from an ATA controller card, but I got rid of that and put both drives on IDE 0 to simplify my system. That changed hdf to hdb without a problem (with appropriate changes to fstab), but somehow hde just went 'poof' and disappeared instead of showing up again as hda. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system
I'm running the old Mandrake 8.2 distro on a Linux-WinXP dual boot machine. My hda drive consists of three partitions, all vfat and used for the XP side of the box. Recently (after making some hardware configuration changes) the Linux side has been unable to mount the hda drive. At first, it wasn't even listed in the /dev directory, so I manually created the block device nodes in /dev/ide0/host0/target0/bus0/lun0 using mknod hda b 3 0 for the disk and mknod hda1 b 3 1, etc for the three partitions. I then linked the devices back up to /dev. My problem now is that I can't mount the devices and keep getting mount: /dev/hda1 is not a valid block device. Looking through dmesg I also get a lot of hda: driver not present warnings during boot, even though the BIOS is definitely seeing the drive. Anyone know how I can make my hda drive mountable again? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system
On Thursday 08 January 2004 07:39 pm, Peter Simko wrote: I'm running the old Mandrake 8.2 distro on a Linux-WinXP dual boot machine. My hda drive consists of three partitions, all vfat and used for the XP side of the box. Recently (after making some hardware configuration changes) the Linux side has been unable to mount the hda drive. At first, it wasn't even listed in the /dev directory, so I manually created the block device nodes in /dev/ide0/host0/target0/bus0/lun0 using mknod hda b 3 0 for the disk and mknod hda1 b 3 1, etc for the three partitions. I then linked the devices back up to /dev. My problem now is that I can't mount the devices and keep getting mount: /dev/hda1 is not a valid block device. Looking through dmesg I also get a lot of hda: driver not present warnings during boot, even though the BIOS is definitely seeing the drive. Anyone know how I can make my hda drive mountable again? Sounds to me like you have a loose or faulty IDE cable. I had this happen once where the cable was just loose enough to cause all kinds of disk errors, but enough of the pins were connected to ID the drive to the BIOS. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system
Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 08 January 2004 07:39 pm, Peter Simko wrote: I'm running the old Mandrake 8.2 distro on a Linux-WinXP dual boot machine. My hda drive consists of three partitions, all vfat and used for the XP side of the box. Recently (after making some hardware configuration changes) the Linux side has been unable to mount the hda drive. At first, it wasn't even listed in the /dev directory, so I manually created the block device nodes in /dev/ide0/host0/target0/bus0/lun0 using mknod hda b 3 0 for the disk and mknod hda1 b 3 1, etc for the three partitions. I then linked the devices back up to /dev. My problem now is that I can't mount the devices and keep getting mount: /dev/hda1 is not a valid block device. Looking through dmesg I also get a lot of hda: driver not present warnings during boot, even though the BIOS is definitely seeing the drive. Anyone know how I can make my hda drive mountable again? Sounds to me like you have a loose or faulty IDE cable. I had this happen once where the cable was just loose enough to cause all kinds of disk errors, but enough of the pins were connected to ID the drive to the BIOS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Oops, should have mentioned that the XP side of the box works fine, and XP is located on hda. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system
On Friday 09 January 2004 02:05 am, Peter Simko wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 08 January 2004 07:39 pm, Peter Simko wrote: I'm running the old Mandrake 8.2 distro on a Linux-WinXP dual boot machine. My hda drive consists of three partitions, all vfat and used for the XP side of the box. Recently (after making some hardware configuration changes) the Linux side has been unable to mount the hda drive. At first, it wasn't even listed in the /dev directory, so I manually created the block device nodes in /dev/ide0/host0/target0/bus0/lun0 using mknod hda b 3 0 for the disk and mknod hda1 b 3 1, etc for the three partitions. I then linked the devices back up to /dev. My problem now is that I can't mount the devices and keep getting mount: /dev/hda1 is not a valid block device. Looking through dmesg I also get a lot of hda: driver not present warnings during boot, even though the BIOS is definitely seeing the drive. Anyone know how I can make my hda drive mountable again? Sounds to me like you have a loose or faulty IDE cable. I had this happen once where the cable was just loose enough to cause all kinds of disk errors, but enough of the pins were connected to ID the drive to the BIOS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Oops, should have mentioned that the XP side of the box works fine, and XP is located on hda. diskdrake as root... me boyo,,, you should be able to make it mount from the gui Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system
I'm running the old Mandrake 8.2 distro on a Linux-WinXP dual boot machine. My hda drive consists of three partitions, all vfat and used for the XP side of the box. Recently (after making some hardware configuration changes) the Linux side has been unable to mount the hda drive. At first, it wasn't even listed in the /dev directory, so I manually created the block device nodes in /dev/ide0/host0/target0/bus0/lun0 using mknod hda b 3 0 for the disk and mknod hda1 b 3 1, etc for the three partitions. I then linked the devices back up to /dev. My problem now is that I can't mount the devices and keep getting mount: /dev/hda1 is not a valid block device. Looking through dmesg I also get a lot of hda: driver not present warnings, even though the BIOS is definitely seeing the drive. Anyone know how I can make my hda drive mountable again? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
