First, I apologize if this mail reaches the wrong box. The welcome message for
the list ended abruptly without giving info on submitting... =)
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
