Re: RH 6.0 & other Linux, Multi-boot

[Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net>]

On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 12:31:40PM -0500, Technoslick wrote:
> Accomplished so far:
> 
> 1) My apologies...both fstab files show '1 1' for the booting partitions,
> instead of the '0 0' I gave you before. Transposing error on my part.
> 
> 2) Edited the lilo.conf on hda2 (TL3) to include booting to hdb1 (RH6.1)
> 
> 3)  Went to mount /dev/hdb1. The only way that it would mount was to be
> explicit: mount -nfrsvw -t ext2 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1
> 
> I then get this message:
> /dev/hdb1 on /mnt/hdb1 type ext2 (rw)

System functioned as instructed.  Why all the options?  You told it
(n) don't write to mtab - bad idea; (f) fake the mount, don't really
do it; (r) mount read-only; (s) sloppy mount - useful only for NFS
mount; (v) verbose - that resulted in the message you got; (w) mount
read-write - conflicts with "r" option.

This should work or you have other problems:

 mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1

> Anything else I have tried, I get this error message:
> 
> EXT2-fs:03:41: coudn't mount RDWR because of unsupported optional features.
> mount: wrong fs type, bad options, bad superblock on /dev/hdb1, or too many
> mounted file systems.
> 
> When I 'ls' /mnt/hdb1, after mounting, I get an empty directory.

That's because the mount wasn't done.

> Here's the
> permissions for the directory: drwxr-xr-w. Something's still not right. It
> must be one of my options invoked. I read through the man pages and --help.
> The usage for some of these commands is just not obvious. Any ideas where I
> went astray?

See above.  Give it another try.

> T

Cheers,
-- 
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
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