problems accessing ms-dos partition

[Howard Siegel USG]

> From: Jim Van Zandt <jrv at mbunix.mitre.org>
> Subject: Re: problems accessing ms-dos partition 
> Date: Fri, 05 Jul 1996 07:40:01 -0400
> Reply-To: linux-sig at bcs.org
> 
> Howard Siegel USG <hpsiegel at zk3.dec.com> writes:
> >When I boot linux, I get the following message --
> >
> >---------------------------
> >[MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 16,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022]
> >[me=0xf8,cs=8,#f=2,fs=1,fl=160,ds=321,de=512,data=353,se=0,ts=328032,ls=512]
> >Transaction block size = 512
> >VFS: Can't find a valid MSDOS filesystem on dev 0x0301.
> >---------------------------
> >
> >-- and I can't mount my /dev/hda1 (which is my ms-dos partition) in
> >linux to /dos.
> 
> Assuming you can access that partition with DOS, my only suggestion is
> that the partition is not where you think it is.  Can you see it with
> "fdisk /dev/hda"?  Maybe you need "mount -t msdos /dev/hdb1 /dos".
> 
>                       - Jim Van Zandt

That's not the problem; here's what I get from fdisk:
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clavier:~# fdisk /dev/hda

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 51 sectors, 1021 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 816 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot  Begin   Start     End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *       4       4     405  164016    6  DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hda2         406     406     446   16728   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda3         447     447     697  102408   83  Linux native
/dev/hda4         698     698    1021  132192   83  Linux native

Command (m for help): q
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Trying to mount either hda1 or hdb1 yields
	mount: /dev/hdb1 not a mount point

Toggling the bootable flag on hda1 didn't change anything either.
(I hadn't expected it to, but at this point I'm grasping at straws.)

Howard Siegel
hpsiegel at zk3.dec.com