problems mounting fat32 partition

[Tom]

Tom wrote:

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>>On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 17:41:57 -0200, Vinicius <cviniciusm at terra.com.br>
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>>>After the boot in normal mode, at the prompt on a terminal, what the 
>>>command "ls /dev/hda*" shows?
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>>Also what's the output from these two commands (must run as root),
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>> fdisk -l /dev/hda
>> cat /proc/partitions
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>>Deron Meranda
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>Very odd... fdisk seems to recognise it, but nothing else does:
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>[root at localhost ~]# ls -l /dev/hda*
>brw-rw----  1 root disk 3, 0 Jan 28 02:48 /dev/hda 
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>[root at localhost ~]# fdisk -l /dev/hda
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>Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40060403712 bytes
>255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4870 cylinders
>Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
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>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>/dev/hda1   *           1        1912    15358108+   7  HPFS/NTFS
>/dev/hda2            1913        4870    23760135    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
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>[root at localhost ~]# cat /proc/partitions
>major minor  #blocks  name
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>   3     0   39121488 hda
>  22    64   20015856 hdd
>  22    65     104391 hdd1
>  22    66   19904535 hdd2
> 253     0    8585216 dm-0
> 253     1    1048576 dm-1
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Ok, have been playing around a bit and found that by running 'partprobe' 
I can get it to pick up the partitions on /dev/hda.

I think there is a problem with reading the partition table during the 
initial boot, as I get the error message: "Buffer I/O Error on device 
hda, logical block 0", just before it starts redhat nash.

Is there a way of fixing this, or could I include partprobe in the boot 
procedure somehow?

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Tom