mounting issues..

[AcftMecH]

hmmm... installed kubuntu 5.04...working good except a mounting issue...

this is my FSTAB:

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hda1 /windows/C vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/hda4 /windows/D vfat defaults 0 0


I believe this is what I have done in other distros except it was hda5 for D drive, but the swap shows up as hda5 with this distro.

C drive mounts fine.... D drive will mount after some playing (mount -a) but I get the following:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda4,
missing codepage or other error
(aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
instead of some logical partition inside?)
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so


then this...

root@DeskLinux:/etc # dmesg | tail
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 1x mode
drivers/usb/input/hid-input.c: event field not found
drivers/usb/input/hid-input.c: event field not found
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hda4.
FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hda4.
FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hda4.


any ideas?

thanks

 

[FishBoy]

you're trying to mount as vfat you're disk file system has to be fat32 or fat for that work, try using
mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/blah

 

[AcftMecH]

you're trying to mount as vfat you're disk file system has to be fat32 or fat for that work, try using
mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/blah

UMMMM ... it is fat32...LOL

it works if i use the command " mount -a" which remounts everything in the FSTAB. I just get the following message:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda4,
missing codepage or other error
(aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
instead of some logical partition inside?)
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

But upon reboot it wont work.


I am thinking that Ubuntu does some partion assigning differently then the likes of suse or mandrake. Although suse and mandrake auto setup your mounts, i am pretty sure that this same D Drive was HDA5 and with Ubuntu it is HDA4. i have tried every number... then it just wont find anything.

any more thoughts?

 

[j79zlr]

run fdisk -l as root and it will show your partitions. You can't have a hda4 without hda2 and hda3, hda5 would be an extended partition.

 

[karl_axe]

ya there is definitely sumthin wrong. try 'rebuildfstab'. i did that in knoppix and it fixes the fstab. ubuntu is debian based and it may have similar features

 

[AcftMecH]

ya there is definitely sumthin wrong. try 'rebuildfstab'. i did that in knoppix and it fixes the fstab. ubuntu is debian based and it may have similar features

yeah, i have actually removed and installed several distros since then, but i am back using kubuntu on that machine (desktop) and Mandriva 2k5 on my lappy. it was wierd, only had problems with that distro, but not anymore. between setups, i rebuilt my entire partition table and it hasnt had a problem since then.

thanks