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From: mds@rich.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Mark D. Spiller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: HELP! Partition mount fails :(
Date: 27 Sep 1994 17:22:41 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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Message-ID: <369kd1$d5h@agate.berkeley.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: rich.eecs.berkeley.edu

Hi -


I am having major difficulties getting my dos partitions
mounted right.  

I have two scsi drives, one with two FAT partitions (one
DOS, one OS/2), and a second drive with two DOS partitions
(one extended partition, two logical drives).  

Initially, I tried to mount the OS/2 FAT partition with
Freebsd - figured that that would be easy.  Since it is
sandwiched between FreeBSD and DOS, getting the size and
offset is trivial.  So, I went in, edited the disklabel,
and created it as sd0g.  However, when I try to mount it,
the system freezes for about 10 seconds and then reboots.

When I tried to do the same for my second hard drive, the
disklabel would complain (something along the lines of
"no valid bsd filesystem found", and erase the new entry
I had just made from the disklabel.  Trying to mount the
partition anyway caused the same crash as above.

Would anyone be able to tell me what I am doing wrong?
I am running FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 on a 486/66, with an
Ultrastor 34F.

Thanks,
Mark
mds@ic.eecs.berkeley.edu