OS PrOBLEM

sorrodos · 08-14-2003, 05:53 PM

Okay, on the linux machine, type "more /etc/fstab" without the quotes and tell me what it says.

WanglessOlasov · 08-14-2003, 05:56 PM

Hmm... you might be able to see which partition is the NTFS by looking at your fstab file, but it'd only be there if the REdhat installer added it automatically. If it's not there, i guess you have to try to manually mount each partition on your hard disk until you find one that works. (I'm sorry if i say something stupid, you guys, but i'm just a newb too... how 'bout this: don't do anything i say unless one of these other guys says it's alright....)

Leseta · 08-14-2003, 06:04 PM

ok. ill try my computer just turned off so its booting

Leseta · 08-14-2003, 06:26 PM

Label=/ / ext2 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5, mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom lmnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto, owner, kudzu,ro 0
0
/dev/cdrom1 lmnt/cdrom1 iso9660 noauto,owner, kudzu,ro 0
0
/dev/fd0 lmnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu, 0 0

sorrodos · 08-14-2003, 06:28 PM

Damn, there is no entry for the NTFS volume.

Okay, on the linux computer, type this now:
ls /dev/hd*

Tell me what it says there.

WanglessOlasov · 08-14-2003, 06:30 PM

Not there, so should he try "mount -t ntfs /dev/hda[x] /mnt/ntfs" (or wherever) until it works? I'm only guessing that his primary drive is /dev/hda...

sorrodos · 08-14-2003, 06:32 PM

Yeah, thats what I'm trying to figure out now. Hopefully there aren't multiple hard drives in his machine

WanglessOlasov · 08-14-2003, 06:44 PM

Wait, will ls /dev/hd* work? on my machine, it shows all possible devices, whether they're there or not... but maybe that's just becuase it's slack. Dunno.

sorrodos · 08-14-2003, 06:47 PM

It shows all devices as in even ones that don't begin w/ hd?
There will be plenty of devices that appear, I am just trying to figure out if he has more than one hard drive.

WanglessOlasov · 08-14-2003, 06:51 PM

Well, what i meant was that it shows All of them... i've only got one drive, /dev/hda, but all possible drives and partitions are still shown, like, i have hda[1-34], even though i only have 9 partitions. And it shows the same for hdb, hdf, hdh, etc, even though none of those devices actually exist on my machine. Hopefully, that's just a slack thing, and redhat will be more reasonable.

Leseta · 08-14-2003, 06:52 PM

ok i did that and it didnt conferm anythign but i got some stuff popping up

WanglessOlasov · 08-14-2003, 06:53 PM

Hey, 30 posts! I'm actually a member! Hurray! Actually, it's kinda scary. Like a 4-year old behind the wheel...

Leseta · 08-14-2003, 06:59 PM

sorry. I'm confused what do you want me to do?

WanglessOlasov · 08-14-2003, 06:59 PM

post the output, i believe

WanglessOlasov · 08-14-2003, 07:21 PM

Hey, just an idea, but in addition to looking at the device files, could we determine from the output of "mount" where the root filesystem is mounted, and maybe that info could lead us to possible partitions that the ntfs might be on (unless he's got multiple disks. then i've got no idea). Umm, Leseta, you had WinXP installed first, didn't you? That would probably mean that the linux partitions are on those that come after the ntfs partition... i hope. just a guess