On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 22:56, Bryan Murdock wrote:
> OK, so grunb.conf doesn't look to tricky. Can I mount the Mandrake
> partition so I can get the exact path and name of the kernel without
> rebooting, writing it down, and rebooting again? I have a scsi hard
> drive and when I type mount while in Redhat I see this:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] bryan]# mount
> /dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw)
> none on /proc type proc (rw)
> usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
> none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
> none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
>
> /etc/fstab says /dev/sda2 is my swap, so can I assume /dev/sda3 is my
> third partition where I put Mandrake? I tried adding this to my fstab:
>
> /dev/sda3 /mnt/otherlin ext3 defaults 1 1
>
> kind of copying what I saw for / but mount said this when I tried to
> mount it:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] bryan]# mount /mnt/otherlin
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda3,
> or too many mounted file systems
> (aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
> instead of some logical partition inside?)
>
> So what if I am trying to mount an extended partition? Got any
> suggestions, mount, or can you just make smart remarks? How about the
> list, can anyone be more helpful than mount?
What is the output of `sfdisk -l /dev/sda'?
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