Subject: Re: Harddrive refuses to mount.
To: evilknievel <evilthings@gmail.com>
From: Jeff Rizzo <riz@redcrowgroup.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 10/19/2004 15:03:33
evilknievel wrote:

>Hey!
>
>I have a very odd problem, i cant get my harddrive which i before used
>with OpenBSD to mount on my new NetBSD installation, I'm running
>NetBSD-2-0_RC4 and i've tried with 1.6.2 also.
>
>disklabel shows my harddrive and the partition i have on it.
>(disklabel /dev/wd0)
>
>16 partitions:
>#        size    offset     fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
> a: 156368016         0     4.2BSD   2048 16384   328  # (Cyl.      0 - 155126)
> c: 156368016         0     unused      0     0        # (Cyl.      0 - 155126)
>
>and when i try and mount i cant enter the mount point, i get this:
>
># mount /dev/wd0d /mnt
># cd /mnt
>cd: /mnt: Not a directory
># 
>  
>

Part of the problem might be that your disklabel isn't actually showing 
a 'd' partition.   Does it work if you try 'mount /dev/wd0a /mnt' ?

Also, does 'fdisk' show anything interesting?

+j

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