booting from extended partitions isn't making any sense

Marty Leisner (leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com)
Thu, 7 Mar 1996 11:35:17 PST


I've used 1.3.45 and 1.3.71

My root fs is in /dev/hda6?

But:
c509.c:1.03 10/8/94 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 >
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.

(fsck failed)
martynt:~$ mount
/dev/hda6 on / type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /dos/c type msdos (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)

sbin/fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 787 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes

Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1 205 413248+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hda2 206 206 612 820512 5 Extended
/dev/hda6 257 257 358 205600+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hda7 359 359 376 36256+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hda8 377 377 437 122944+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hda9 438 438 448 22144+ 4 DOS 16-bit <32M
/dev/hda10 206 206 211 12064 83 Linux native
martynt:/u/leisner#

/sbin/rdev /dos/c/loadlin/zimage71.9
Root device /dev/hda5
martynt:/u/leisner#

I'm up and running -- I created /dev/hda10 to try somesomething...

martynt:/u/leisner# /sbin/fdisk -v
fdisk v2.0d (>2GB)
martynt:/u/leisner# uname -a
Linux martynt 1.3.71 #13 Thu Mar 7 11:42:40 EST 1996 i586

When I set it up to boot from /dev/hda6, it tried to mount an msdos
file system as root...

This is not the type of problem I necessarily want to investigate
(I accidently blew away another system wth mke2fs instead of e2fsck...
[Would it be useful to make mke2fs prompt for confirmation by default?
Several times [more than I care to recall] I accidently blew away
file systems...

marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com
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