mounting problem

Antihero · n00b Joined: 25 Nov 2002 Posts: 2 Location: Washington

So i am onto the part where I:

Code listing 7.2: Creating Mount Points
# mkdir /mnt/gentoo
# mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo
# mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot
# mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot

and it won;t mount... it just says "ext3: no journal on filesystem on ide0(3,1)"

I tried again and it says "mount: Mounting /dev/hda1 on /mnt/gentoo/boot failed: Device or resource busy"

DArtagnan · Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2002 7:53 am Post subject: Re: mounting problem

Antihero · n00b Joined: 25 Nov 2002 Posts: 2 Location: Washington

darktux · Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2002 12:58 am Post subject:

So what is it then? mount usually detects the fs that's trying to mount.. Try doing something linke mount -t fs /dev/hda? /mnt/? beeing fs something like, reiserfs, ext3, ext2, xfs, or whatever you chose. :-)

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LugnutsForBrains · Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2002 1:07 am Post subject:

I have run into this problem many times. I find that if I use the dd command to wipe out the partition table, I remove traces of other OS'es that seem to get in the way.

(e.g. #dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 bs=512 count=1)

This has fixed it every time for me. Although you have to start over...
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