Saw your post, Tim. I'm still trying to reproduce the error.
Perhaps you could post output of
# dmesg
# cat /etc/fstab
Civileme
Tim Hammerquist wrote:
>
> Did I post to the wrong list? Did I miss an obvious FAQ? My problem
> seems to be Mandrake 7-specific, and v7 FAQ isn't incomplete.
>
> Maybe my question's just too puerile, but if someone could at least
> point me in the right direction?
>
> thanks,
> -Tim
>
> Tim Hammerquist wrote:
> >
> > 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
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