After reinstalling Linux Mandrake 7.1, I could no longer access one of
my vfat partitions.
Before the reinstallation, I was able to access it.
I've got gut feel that my partition table is faulty.
>From error message in LinuxConf:
Checking base configuration
Checking kernel's modules
Mounting local volumes
Executing: /bin/mount -t vfat -o exec,dev,suid,rw,umask=0 /dev/hdc1
/mnt/win_d
* mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc1,
* or too many mounted file systems
* return 32
Snippets from /var/log/kern.log:
May 23 10:18:40 localhost kernel: unable to read partition table
May 23 10:18:40 localhost kernel: [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT
16,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=000,bmap]
May 23 10:18:40 localhost kernel:
[me=0x1c,cs=40,#f=0,fs=65526,fl=151150,ds=655350,de=0,data=655350,se=279
04,ts=229769356,ls=5376,rc=0,fc=4294967295]
May 23 10:18:40 localhost kernel: Transaction block size = 512
May 23 10:18:40 localhost kernel: VFS: Can't find a valid MSDOS
filesystem on dev 16:01.
May 23 10:18:40 localhost kernel: [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT
16,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=000,bmap]
May 23 10:18:40 localhost kernel:
[me=0x1c,cs=40,#f=0,fs=65526,fl=151150,ds=655350,de=0,data=655350,se=279
04,ts=229769356,ls=5376,rc=0,fc=4294967295]
May 23 10:18:40 localhost kernel: Transaction block size = 512
May 23 10:18:40 localhost kernel: VFS: Can't find a valid MSDOS
filesystem on dev 16:01.
My fstab configuration:
/dev/hdc3 / reiserfs notail 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hdc9 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
/mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdc1 /mnt/win_d vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdc5 /mnt/win_e vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdc6 /mnt/win_f vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdc8 /mnt/win_g vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0
/mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/zip 0 0
/dev/hdc7 /opt ext2 defaults 1 2
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc10 /usr/local ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdc4 swap swap defaults 0 0
hdc3 was formerly ext2 but I reformated it to reiserts (wanted to try)
during reinstall.
When to check with Partition Magic 6. Gives an error:
Disk 2 (16441 MB 2227c 240h 63s) appears to have partitions created
using
different drive geometry (16h 63s)...
It appears to me that Partition Magic can't recognize reiserfs.
Reinstalled my grub bootloader to hdc1 since System Commander 2000 can't
boot successfully to linux if the bootloader is in hdc3 after the
reinstall.
Am at wits end trying to find the solution. Help!
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