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xiraux
02-14-2001, 02:26 AM
Whenever I try to mount my windows drive it says: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1, or too many mounted file systems. Nothing else is mounted when I have tried this. My entry in /etc/fstab looks like this:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat defaults,user 0 0
I am also having trouble booting into windows. Whenever I boot up my computer I get the LI from lilo. I tried to clear the master boot record by using a boot disk to boot up and then using fdisk /mbr, but that didn't work.
PLBlaze
02-14-2001, 02:34 AM
First make sure to have windows directory under /mnt...then try to modprobe vfat and finally mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows.Hope this helps.
chimaybleue
02-14-2001, 06:59 AM
Don't know what the mater is, but you could try to replace vfat with auto, to see if the matter comes from the FS
You say Windows, NT or 98? In other words, it's not a NTFS drive is it?
xiraux
02-14-2001, 06:59 PM
It is windows 98. I did a modprobe and it said:
modprobe: Can't locate module vfat.
How do i fix this?
ifred
02-15-2001, 01:04 AM
You may have to recompile your existing kernel to include support for using the vfat filesystem. Alternately you could install a binary containing a kernel image, run #rdev /<image-file> /dev/<your current root device> (this may be wrong so please refer to a more authoratative source than me before trying it). The second option, however, will only solve your problem if the binary supplies a kernal image with vfat support enabled either integrally as part of the kernel or as a module.