Wing, What you need is add the ext2.o kernel module to the initrd package to mount an ext2 fs. The kernel module can be found in the kernel tarball. http://leaf.sourceforge.net/doc/guide/buci-downmod.html
Initrd_ide contains all necessary modules to boot from a fat fs, but if you need ext2, ext3, vfat, reiser, ... you have to add the modules. Including them all by default will make the initrd very big. Minix is used for the initrd so that will work out-of-the-box. It's also possible to mount fat32 fs, but the contents will be truncated to 8.3. You need the vfat.o module for full fat32 support. You can also add the ext2 module to modules.lrp if the fs is not used in the early boot process. Eric -----Original Message----- From: "wing newton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Eric Spakman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "leaf" <[email protected]> Sent: 4-4-06 18:05 Subject: RE: [leaf-user] Bering-uClibc-2.4 mount problem Eric, Which kernel module ? I am using initrd_ide.lrp. Does initrd_ide.lrp include all the necessary modules ? I did a few experiments with it. What I found are: 1) mount /dev/hda1 /mnt on an existing/working Linux (83) partition > Mounting /dev/hda1 on /mnt failed: Invalid argument 2) mount -t ext2 /dev/hda1 /mnt > Mounting /dev/hda1 on /mnt failed: No such device Note that /dev/hda1 is an existing/working Linux ext2 FS. 3. I "lrpkg -i hdsupp" and then did a fsck.ext2 on /dev/hda1. It worked fine as I expected - implies the FS on hda1 is an ext2. 4. I got a new disk and did a fdisk to create a new partition. If I label it fat16 and do a mkfs.msdos on it, I can "mount /dev/hda1 /mnt or mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt" - no problem. It also works fine with a new vfat or minix partition too. If I re-label the same partition as Linux partition i.e. 83 and do mkfs.ext2, surprisingly I can "mount /dev/hda1 /mnt" correctly. However, the same trick works only sometimes. Why ? Note that this is a new fdisk not the existing Linux partition. I need to mount an existing/working Linux partition. Any hint ? Thank you for your help. mount /dev/hda1 --- Eric Spakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > You have to include and load the ext2 kernel module > to mount an ext2 fs. > > Eric > > -----Original Message----- > From: "wing newton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: 4-4-06 4:28 > Subject: [leaf-user] Bering-uClibc-2.4 mount problem > > Greetings, > > I installed initrd_ide.lrp and dmesg showed that > hda1 > and hda2 were detected. > > However, when I tried to mount -t ext2 /dev/hda1 > /mnt > , it returns No such device. > > I also tried hdsupp.lrp. fdisk works fine but the > mounting problem is still there. > > I can mount /dev/fd0 fine but not any harddisk > partitions. > > Any hint ? Any problem with the busybox's mount ? > > Thanks. > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
