Yep,
There is a missed geometry in the partition check.
Pass your geometry hard as "hdb=1027,255,63" and tell me if that helps.
On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Todd M. Roy wrote:
>
> Andre (and linux-kernel),
>
> I've got a problem with 2.3.48, at least with pre2 and 3.
> One of my hard disks is missing. The drive is a western digital
> WDC AC28400R.
> Here are the relevent lines from DMESG:
>
> hdb: WDC28400R, ATA Disk drive
> hdb: WDC AC28400R, 8063MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=1027/255/63 (U)DMA
>
> The drive is LBA, like all my drives. Its the ide0 slave, it
> has 1 vfat, 2 ext2 partitions and 1 swap. The problem in 2.3.48pre2/3
> is that nothing on the drive mounts:
>
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb2,
> or too many mounted file systems
> (aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
> instead of some logical partition inside?)
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb3,
> or too many mounted file systems
> (aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
> instead of some logical partition inside?)
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb1,
> or too many mounted file systems
> (aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
> instead of some logical partition inside?)
>
> fdisk and cfdisk can see the partitions. fsck gives something
> like "short superblock".. Sorry I dropped back to 2.2.15pre10 to
> write this (which mounts everything on hdb just fine).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Todd.
>
> (PS. The lastest ide patch for 2.2.15 works great Andre, thanks.)
>
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