I just wanted to let you know somebody had read your letter. I've got a 20GB primary and a 13GB secondary drive with Win98, WinNT4, BeOS 4.5 and Mandrake Linux all loaded on the 20GB drive, using the second for extra file space. Right now I'm using the BeOS boot manager (nice graphics), but lilo always did fine with the Windows / Linux partitions, and I've never had a problem mounting my windows parts using vfat filesystem. Of course you have to set it up through linuxconf to make it work.
I'm sorry, I just don't know what else to tell you.
Mike
Tim Hammerquist wrote:
I posted this to [expert] as well, but it went unanswered. Maybe this is
too simple for them? But I need help; this is infuriating!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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