On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, David Wright wrote:
> Quoting Stefan Baums ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> >
> > hda1 contains what cfdisk calls "Win95 FAT32 (LBA)" (the lost
> > Win95 partition)
> >
> > hda4 contains a Debian 2.0 base system
> >
> > LILO was set up to automatically boot Win95. The only major thing we
> > did was install Ghostscript 6.01 for Windows, then next day when we
> > turned the computer back on, LILO got stuck in booting after printing
> > "LI" on screen.
> >
> > I then went into the Debian 2.0 system with a rescue disk, wrote a
> > series of lilo.conf's, ran lilo, rebooted. The result was always that
> > LILO got to the point where it told me
> >
> > Then I tried to mount the Win95 partition from GNU/Linux to save the
> > most important data, but the result of "mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt"
> > is:
>
> Just a thought, but does Debian 2.0 (this is hamm, released July 98)
> support FAT32 in its vfat, or only FAT16 with long filenames?
> Fat32 support seemed to creep rather quietly into linux kernels,
> judging by rgrep -i -r fat32 *
>
> Ie, have you mounted the partition successfully before from linux?
>
I've been grateful to learn about the fdisk /mbr thing though in my case its
closing the door after the horse has bolted ... result of using an immature
bootloader with poor documentation.
I do regularly browse my win95 files mounting thusly:
mount -t msdos /dev/sdb1 /mnt
angus claydon
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