uh-oh.

[optech]

here's my setup:
hda1 - windows 98
hda2 - Slackware

hdb1 - mandrake
hdb2 - swap.

i had mandrake on for a while, but i lost my boot disk.

lilo will now let me access windows and slackware, but it can't get to my mandrake partition...

all i need are two files off my mandrake, then i can put debian on top of it.

how can i mount this?
i've tried!!!

[demian]

Doesn't mount -text2 /dev/hdb1 /mnt work? It would be strange if this failed.

[bdg1983]

Yes, just mount from Slackware.

[optech]

root@optech:/mnt# mount -text2 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb1,
or too many mounted file systems
(aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
instead of some logical partition inside?)
root@optech:/mnt#


that's my error msg...

[Bradmont]

Heh... I'm pretty sure that should say ext2, not text2... but try it without that argument altogether, mount will usually autodetect it.

<edit> Umm... by 'it' I meant the partition type. Sorry that was kinda unclear
:o </edit>

[ 04 April 2001: Message edited by: Bradmont ]

[Molecule Man]

Did you install with Reiserfs for Mandrake? You might need to compile a reiserfs module for you slack kernel.

[Bradmont]

Originally posted by Molecule Man:
Did you install with Reiserfs for Mandrake? You might need to compile a reiserfs module for you slack kernel.


If this were the case, it would prolly be much less of a hastle to just edit the lilo.conf to allow you to boot into Mandrake and get the files.

[demian]

Originally posted by Bradmont:
Heh... I'm pretty sure that should say ext2, not text2... but try it without that argument altogether, mount will usually

The option for mount is -t <fs_type> and it doesn't matter if you put a blank betweeen it or not.

Still, this is strange. There's nothing broken with this partition, is there? You could also try to boot into a bash. At the lilo prompt try root=/dev/hdb1 init=/bin/bash.