On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 06:27 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 19:21 +0900, Dave Gutteridge wrote: > > >Rather than editing /etc/fstab and adding a lot of mount flags to the > > >mix, start with the basics. Can you do the following as root: > > >mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows > > > > > > > > [root at localhost ~]# mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1, > > or too many mounted file systems > > > > >If yes, then it is a matter of working out the proper flags. If not, > > >then the file system could be corrupt. When you try the mount command > > >above, do you see any errors in /var/log/messages or dmesg output? > > > > > > > > > > This is in /var/log/messages: > > Aug 30 19:16:50 localhost kernel: FAT: invalid first entry of FAT > > (0xffffff8 != 0x1) > > Aug 30 19:16:50 localhost kernel: VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem > > on dev hda1. > > > > So it thinks it's not a valid FAT system. It seems to work okay in > > Windows... is there a possibility that there are different kinds of FAT32? > > > > Dave > > > > Is this a Windows partition? If so, I would boot in Windows XP an make > sure you can read the partition in Windows and run chkdsk on it via > Windows XP to start with. Windows also has Dynamic disk partitioning, which the normal 2.6 Linux kernel does not support. If that disk is a Dynamic partition, you may need to use the CentOS Plus ( http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/centosplus/ ) kernel to use that partition. I have never had to do this with FAT32, but it is a possibility. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050830/f036857f/attachment-0005.sig>