give the me the exact details you go through to try to moun the win
partition. I had a problem but I got around it, I want to see if the
problem is similar.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Hammerquist [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 10:06 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] Can't mount FAT32 LBA partition: invalid major or
> minor number...
>
> 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
