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Haines Brown wrote:
> I'm running debian sarge on a box that has two hard disks attached,
> and it turns out that my debian disk is seen as (hd1,0),
> root="/dev/sdb1".
>
> Also on the SCSI bus is an _old_ 2Gb hard disk that has an OS/2 system
> on it, and I'd like to mount this disk to cull some old files from it.
>
> I create a /mnt/os2 mount point and so:
>
> # mount /dev/sda /mnt/os2 -t hpfs
> HPFS: Bad Magic ... Probably not HPFS
>
> Dmesg says:
>
> VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on device (sd8,0).
>
> I presume the OS/2 disk device file is sda rather than sda1. Why is
> the device interface file sd8 being used?
>
> Any suggestions about how to proceed?
# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/os2 -t hpfs
^
Try adding a partition number.
Also, are you *sure* that that drive is the first machine on the
SCSI bus? dmesg should have a list of devices it found on the each bus.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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