u're kernel doesn't have support for fat32. get a new kernel.
Nikhil.
On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 03:23:51PM +0300, The Moores wrote:
> Your windows partition might not be formatted as fat32, try mounting it as
> ms-dos fat16
>
> Ashley Moore
>
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> Subject: [LIH] mount failing on fat32
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> >
> > When I try to mount a fat32 partition as:
> > mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /dosc
> > I get the following error:
> >
> > [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 16,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap]
> > [me=0xf8,cs=8,#f=2,fs=32,fl=0,ds=32,de=0,data=32,se=0,ts=1939329,ls=512]
> > Transaction block size = 512
> > VFS: Can't find a valid MSDOS filesystem on dev 03:01.
> > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
> > or too many mounted file systems
> >
> >
> > When I run fdisk, the following is the output:
> > Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 1023 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes
> >
> > Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
> > /dev/hda1 * 1 1 481 969664+ b Win95 FAT32
> > /dev/hda2 482 482 514 66528 82 Linux swap
> > /dev/hda3 515 515 1023 1026144 83 Linux native
> >
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> >
> > What could be going wrong ?
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