Fedora Users — Re: problems mounting fat32 partition

Tom wrote:

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 17:41:57 -0200, Vinicius <cviniciusm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

After the boot in normal mode, at the prompt on a terminal, what the command "ls /dev/hda*" shows?
Also what's the output from these two commands (must run as root),
fdisk -l /dev/hda
cat /proc/partitions
-- Deron Meranda


Very odd... fdisk seems to recognise it, but nothing else does:

[root@localhost ~]# ls -l /dev/hda* brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 0 Jan 28 02:48 /dev/hda

[root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40060403712 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4870 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

  Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1        1912    15358108+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2            1913        4870    23760135    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)

[root@localhost ~]# cat /proc/partitions
major minor  #blocks  name

  3     0   39121488 hda
 22    64   20015856 hdd
 22    65     104391 hdd1
 22    66   19904535 hdd2
253     0    8585216 dm-0
253     1    1048576 dm-1

Ok, have been playing around a bit and found that by running 'partprobe' I can get it to pick up the partitions on /dev/hda.

I think there is a problem with reading the partition table during the initial boot, as I get the error message: "Buffer I/O Error on device hda, logical block 0", just before it starts redhat nash.

Is there a way of fixing this, or could I include partprobe in the boot procedure somehow?

--
Tom