problem with win-shit partition and reboot

wizard7423 · 03-17-2005, 08:07 AM

hi at all,

i'm here with some problems as all the other times....

The first problem is that i'm not able to mount a windows (vfat) partition.
This is some further information:

1) Mount

Code:

# mount -t vfat /dev/hda7 /win2/
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda7,
       or too many mounted file systems

2) kernel compilation: fs supported

Code:

<*> MSDOS fs support
<*> VFAT (Windows-95) fs support
(437) Default codepage for FAT
(iso8859-1) Default iocharset for FAT
<*> NTFS file system support
      [ ]   NTFS debugging support[*]   NTFS write support

3) kernel compilation: languages support

Code:

  
<*>   Codepage 437 (United States, Canada)  
<*>   Codepage 850 (Europe)   
<*>   ASCII (United States)
<*>   NLS ISO 8859-1  (Latin 1; Western European Languages)
<*>   NLS ISO 8859-15 (Latin 9; Western European Languages with Euro)

4) cfdisk:

Code:

                                 cfdisk 2.12a

                             Disk Drive: /dev/hda
                       Size: 30005821440 bytes, 30.0 GB
             Heads: 255   Sectors per Track: 63   Cylinders: 3648

   Name        Flags      Part Type  FS Type          [Label]        Size (MB)
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
   hda1        Boot        Primary   NTFS                              5000.98
   hda2                    Primary   Linux ReiserFS                   10610.62
   hda3                    Primary   Linux ReiserFS                    4902.27
   hda5                    Logical   Linux ext3                          98.71
   hda6                    Logical   Linux swap                         542.87
   hda7                    Logical   W95 FAT32                         8850.41

    [Bootable]  [ Delete ]  [  Help  ]  [Maximize]  [ Print  ]
    [  Quit  ]  [  Type  ]  [ Units  ]  [ Write  ]

While second problem regards the reboot of my machine. I'm not able to reboot. In particular if i give an halt command the machine shoutdown correctly, while if i give a reboot command the machine does all the shoutdown process, the monitor became black and at that poin the machine stay on forever with the monitor switched off.
I tied to see if it is a kernel (from 2.4 to 2.6 was changed the interrupt subsystem, if i'm not wrong) or configuration mistake, but i have the same problem even with Slackware 10.0 default installation (it uses a 2.4.26 kernel version).
In particular my machine has the following hardware pieces:
Mitac machine. model 8575 with:
-CPU Pentium Intel

1) lspci:

Code:

# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 650/M650 Host (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP)
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961 [MuTIOL Media IO]
00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0016
00:02.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 07)
00:02.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 07)
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0)
00:02.6 Modem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Modem Controller (rev a0)
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Sound Controller (rev a0)
00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 90)
00:09.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 02)
00:0b.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): NEC Corporation: Unknown device 00ce (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 65x/M650/740 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter

I don't know the kind of information could be important for this second point, so I will remain in attended of your ulterior questions.

Thanks at all for your answers.
Alberto

gbonvehi · 03-17-2005, 08:10 AM

For the second "problem" try:

Code:

/sbin/modprobe apm

Then shutdown or reboot and see what happens. If it works remove the comment on the line that does that command on /etc/rc.d/rc.modules

And about the first one, try:

Code:

/sbin/modprobe vfat

but I guess mount should load it automatically.

wizard7423 · 03-17-2005, 08:20 AM

I never use modules so i must recompile the kernel to try your first advice. Anyway am i obliged to use apm? Isn't it obsolete? I'm using ACPI now. And if i'm not wrong acpi and apm are incompatible....
While as you can see from my .config file (i previously posted it) i already has compiled vfat kernel option within the kernel.
Thanks anyway.
Alberto

gbonvehi · 03-17-2005, 08:28 AM

You're right, my mistake, you've all necesary stuff built-in (need some sleep to see the difference between a * and a M :P ) so you don't have/need modules.
Well, i'm using ACPI since a few days (I upgraded from 2.6.6 to 2.6.11.3) and don't have any problems, however, before that I've always prefered/used APM because it worked always and I really didn't need ACPI.
About the vfat problem.. well I don't remember why but that happened to me on the past.. try making a search on this forum I wouldn't be surprised if you find answers.

wizard7423 · 03-17-2005, 08:34 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by gbonvehi
You're right, my mistake, you've all necesary stuff built-in (need some sleep to see the difference between a * and a M :P )

No problem! indeed thanks however for the answer. I will try your suggest to use apm system...

Alberto