On Wednesday 22 October 2003 12:03 pm, Anand Buddhdev wrote:

> mount_ext2fs: /dev/sd1a on /mnt: Operation not supported by device
>
> I used disklabel to see what was wrong, and I saw that the partition
> was showing up as type 4.2BSD. I used the interactive mode of
> disklabel to set the partition to type "Linux Ext2". And then I tried
> to mount it again, and I get the same error message. But I don't
> understand what it means. Does anyone know what it means?

Try running "mbrlabel sd1". This should show the ext2 partition tacked 
onto the end of the NetBSD disklabel. Use "mbrlabel -wr sd1" to update 
the NetBSD disklabel with the ext2 partition's details. You should now 
be able to mount it.

Cheers, Steve