From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 15:46:07 -0800 From: Ethan Benson To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: More problems with Kernel 2.4.10-pre12 and mounting Message-ID: <20010923154607.A14835@plato.local.lan> References: <20010922234424.X14835@plato.local.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="jE+K4o1MICf3EEet" In-Reply-To: ; from tendim@tendim.cjb.net on Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 01:33:54PM -0400 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: --jE+K4o1MICf3EEet Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 01:33:54PM -0400, patrick wrote: > On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: >=20 > > what happens if you run the following: > >=20 > > dd if=3D/dev/sdb of=3D/dev/null bs=3D512 count=3D1 > >=20 > > i am betting you will get a `No such device' error which means the > > kernel thinks there is no second scsi device. >=20 > Nope, I get: >=20 > 1+0 records in > 1+0 records out >=20 > Related, my partition map for /dev/sdb is: >=20 > Partition Dec > 0 Apple driver > 1 ?? > 2 ?? > 3 HFS > 4 e2fs >=20 > I can mount /dev/sdb4. >=20 > This all points to a problem with Apple Partition Support..? is it possible you have an x86 BIOS partition table on that disk as well? if mac-fdisk -l doesn't work then your mac partition table is corrupt. but if that does work but the kernel is getting other ideas about your partitions you probably have both an x86 and mac partition table (its actually possible for them to coexist, but its a gross and uneeded hack). what does /proc/partitions say? --=20 Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ --jE+K4o1MICf3EEet Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline --jE+K4o1MICf3EEet-- ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/