Re: [ECOS] Partitions on Hard Drive

[Donald Walton <dwalton at dramail dot com>]

Nick,

Thanks for the feedback.  That was the problem.  I changed
to /dev/disk0/2 as you suggested and the partition was read correctly.

Thanks,
Don Walton

On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 18:46 +0000, Nick Garnett wrote:
> Donald Walton <dwalton@dramail.com> writes:
> 
> > Continuing the investigation into why there is a problem mounting
> > partitions, other than the first partition, of a IDE hard drive, it
> > appears that partitions other than the first one are being ignored.
> > 
> > I tried to mount my IDE hard drive as /dev/disk0/1.  eCos printed "disk
> > lookup dev number = 1", which is correct.  eCos then indicated that
> > "disk read block=63", which is the start of partition 0, not partition
> > 1.  Partition 0 ends at 782207 and partition 1 starts at 782208.
> 
> The partition numbering is a little odd:
> 
> /dev/disk0/0 refers to the whole disk. So sector 0 of this will be the
> MBR with the partition table. /dev/disk0/1 refers to the first
> partition, /dev/disk0/2 to the second and so on. So you probably want
> to try mounting /dev/disk0/2.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Nick Garnett                                     eCos Kernel Architect
> http://www.ecoscentric.com                The eCos and RedBoot experts
> 
> 

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