It may be that you geometry settings have been busted or some such?
What is the output of:
rescuept
-Tom
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Koleman Strumpf wrote:
> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 16:34:05 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Koleman Strumpf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Tom Oehser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [tomsrtbt] Unable to mount ext2
>
> Here is my output:
>
> # fdisk -l
>
> Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 5 will be corrected by
> w(rite)
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1025 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 262 2096608+6 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
> Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
> phys=(519, 127, 63) should be (519, 254, 63)
> /dev/hda2 262 514 2028096 5 Extended
> Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
> phys=(1022, 127, 63) should be (1022, 254, 63)
>
> hdc: media changed
> hdc: tray open or drive not ready
> hdc: tray open or drive not readt
> hdc: tray open
> end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00, sector 0
>
>
>
> Koleman
>
> PS I forgot to mention it, but I have an IDE hard drive.
>
>
>
> On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Tom Oehser wrote:
>
> >
> > If you do:
> >
> > fdisk -l
> >
> > to list partitions, what do you see?
> >
> > -Tom
> >
> > On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Tom Oehser wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 12:11:22 -0400 (EDT)
> > > From: Tom Oehser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: Koleman Strumpf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: [tomsrtbt] Unable to mount ext2
> > >
> > >
> > > Probably hda2 is an extended partition and really you need hda5?
>
