You might try mounting as ext2.  But also, I would never try to mount to 
/mnt.  Make a directory in /mnt and use that.  e.g., /mnt/Temp


On 09/15/2010 03:22 PM, Montaseri wrote:
> Thanks Les and Andy,
>
> I suppose I can ignore this type recognition if I can solve my real
> problem, which lead me to this inquiry.
>
> My real problem is that I would like to boot off of clonezilla and
> proceed to mount the root filesystem (of the box being cloned) to learn
> stuff from /etc such as IP of the box and such. This is to automate the
> cloneing to an NFS location in a proper folder, for ease of restore and
> such.
>
> Currently when I clonezilla fdisk reports my root filesystem type to be
> 83. When I try to mount this like
>
> mount -t ext3  /dev/sda2 /mnt
>
> I get the following error message
> VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sda2
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda2 ...
> .....and bunch of other suggestions including see dmesg
>
> Any suggestions...
>
> Thanks
> Medi
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Andy Berquist <aberqu...@adnexustx.com
> <mailto:aberqu...@adnexustx.com>> wrote:
>
>     That’s normal. There was a kernel update somewhere in the 2.6 branch
>     that deprecated the ide driver in favor of scsi emulation. I don’t
>     know the exact details off the top of my head.
>
>     Is it actually stopping you from doing something?
>
>     -Andy
>
>     *From:* Montaseri [mailto:montas...@gmail.com
>     <mailto:montas...@gmail.com>]
>     *Sent:* Wednesday, September 15, 2010 2:52 PM
>     *To:* clonezilla-live@lists.sourceforge.net
>     <mailto:clonezilla-live@lists.sourceforge.net>
>     *Subject:* Re: [Clonezilla-live] clonezilla live sees my flash as sd
>
>     I have not received any reply on this inquiry. Can someone send me
>     an email indicating that it is being heard.
>
>     Thanks
>     Medi
>
>     On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Montaseri <montas...@gmail.com
>     <mailto:montas...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     Just installed and tried Clonezilla ver
>     clonezilla-live-20100721-lucid.iso and booted my Linux box.
>
>     I have two PATA partitions and a few more SCSI partitions. When I
>     run fdisk from my (native) linux box, I see
>
>     [r...@meditest]# fdisk -l
>
>     Disk /dev/hda: 1048 MB, 1048190976 bytes
>     32 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1015 cylinders
>     Units = cylinders of 2016 * 512 = 1032192 bytes
>
>         Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>     /dev/hda1               1         131      132047+  83  Linux
>     /dev/hda2             132        1015      891072   83  Linux
>
>     Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
>     255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
>     Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
>         Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>     /dev/sda1               1          17      136552   83  Linux
>     /dev/sda2              18         540     4200997+  82  Linux swap
>     /dev/sda3             541        1846    10490445   83  Linux
>     /dev/sda4            1847       30401   229368037+   5  Extended
>     /dev/sda5            1847        3152    10490444+  83  Linux
>     /dev/sda6            3153        4458    10490444+  83  Linux
>     /dev/sda7            4459        8636    33559784+  83  Linux
>     /dev/sda8            8637        9942    10490444+  83  Linux
>     /dev/sda9            9943       11248    10490444+  83  Linux
>     /dev/sda10          11249       12554    10490444+  83  Linux
>     /dev/sda11          12555       30401   143356027   83  Linux
>
>     But when I boot off of clonezilla, and run fdisk -l, I get
>     (bunch of stuff skipped)
>        Device Boot        Start           End         Blocks        Id
>     System
>     /dev/sda1             1                  131          nnnn
>     83   Linux
>     /dev/sda2             132              1015       nnnnn        83
>     Linux           // nnnn is ok...just lazy
>     ...skipping stuff....
>     /dev/sdb1
>     /dev/sdb2
>
>     Basically, Clonezilla is seeing both my flash disk and sata disk as
>     scsi disks?
>     Any ideas
>
>     Thanks
>     Medi
>
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