media descriptor issue help please

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Fri Oct 26 23:18:01 UTC 2007


> hfs: unable to find HFS+ superblock
> hfs: unable to find HFS+ superblock
> FAT: invalid media value (0xb9)
> VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sdb.
> 
> So it seems that there is an invalid media descriptor on the ATA drive. But 
> the information seems to not be conclusive because in fact the Windows boot 
> sector is detected and a partial boot into Windows does in fact take place. I 
> don't know what to make of this or what to do next.

Assuming its partitioned which is what I would expect then you'll
have /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb2 ... etc

Alan




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