Re: [MiNT] *Several* Minix partitions?

[joska@nuts.edu (Jo Even Skarstein)]

On Sun, 26 Sep 99 01:51:40 GMT, Remi Villatel wrote:

> Under BASH I typed:
>
> minit -V -n 2 -P K:
>
> minit -V -n 2 -P L:
>
> Minit reported no error except that it complained for the unnecessary options.
> After that, both partitions K: and L: became unreachable either under BASH or
> from Jinnee.
>
>
> Here is what fsinfo reports:
>
> files  links  path_max  name_max  atomic  trunc  case  file
>    75      1       128        12       0    8+3    no  K:
>
> files  links  path_max  name_max  atomic  trunc  case  file
>    75      1       128        12       0    8+3    no  L:
>
> Just as if both were plain TOS partitions... and fsck says that K: and L: are

Did you change the partition-type to "RAW" or "MNX" (I'm not sure about the
last one, check the docs for minit). If you didn't, minix.xfs won't find it.

> While typing, I got an idea: Are all my problems due to the fact that it is an
> IDE harddisc?

Not at all :-)


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