Errors mounting sda9 and in Gparted

[AndyAxnot]

Hi! I just discovered Puppy and I'm impressed and interested.

However, I ran into a problem very quickly. I have a couple of computers, the one I had problems with is based on a Gigabyte GA-K8U mobo, with an AMD Sempron, 1.6 GHz, 1 GB ram, and a 30 GB IDE hard drive and a 250 SATA drive.

The SATA drive is divided into 2 primary partitions and an extended partition with logical partitions sda5 through sda10. The last 2 SATA partitions seem not to be recognized and I get an error message when booting, "mount Mounting /dev/sda9 on /mnt/data failed, no such file or directory"

I can't do anything with sda9 or sda10 in Gparted.

I tried another live-CD, Mepis, using Qtparted, and was able to format sda9 and sda10 to ext3 and use them, but Puppy still can't use them.

I think this is a bug, but it could very easily be me. It often is.

I thought Puppy would make a nice rescue disk for some friends who are still in the Windows world, but this could be a problem.

Any suggestions or info appreciated!

Andy

[AndyAxnot]

I did some further checking. Things are as I described, but I found I could clear the problem pretty much by mounting sda9 in Rox. Once I did that I found that the exclamation mark within a shield that had been by sda9 and sda10 in Gparted went away.

This all seems rather strange to me, but perhaps it's just different from what I'm used to. Tomorrow I'll unallocate those last 2 partitions and see if Gparted chokes or does OK.

Andy

[BarryK]

Look in /dev, Puppy currently onlt supports up to sda8.
The mknod program can be used to extend that.

[AndyAxnot]

Barry,

Thanks for your response. Nice to know what happened. I'm looking into mknod.

Thanks again!

Andy

[MU]

Look in /dev, Puppy currently onlt supports up to sda8.
The mknod program can be used to extend that.

That sounds strange, as I can mount them all:
http://dotpups.de/pics/puppy/mut-sda.jpg

Or are those restrictions limited to the boot-process only?

Puppy 2.01, upgraded from 2.00.

sda1 is an external USB-drive (connected via USB 1 port)
Mark

[AndyAxnot]

Mark, if you look at my second post, you'll see that I, too, could mount the partitions in Rox. But I also got error messages booting, and I could not successfully modify these partitions in Gparted, which was my original problem.

It is odd, and I'm not knowledgeable enough about Linux to know how this works.

About my setup: I'm booting from the CD (not installed to hard drive) and the my sda drive is a SATA drive connected to a SATA port on the motherboard.

Andy

[BarryK]

maybe MUT creates the extra entries in /dev/, using mknod.
puppy 2.01 only has up to /dev/sda8, as does /initrd/dev/

[Jesse]

Hi,

Yes, MUT does make extra nodes in /dev/ as necessary for extra partitions and extra drives, you never know how many usb disks and things people are going to plug into the system!

Jesse

[MU]

Jesse, just want to thank you for this great tool
It is one of these programs that everybody uses, and usually will not think of giving feedback (except he has errors).

But I am just amazed how good it works, also now the mknod you described.
A great utility

I started my old Mandrake 9 some weeks ago, and really was annoyed that I had no MUT in it

Mark

[Jesse]

Hi Mark,

I'm glad you like it
Yes MUT is very handy, I noticed the need for it in Puppy back in 2004, and took a few months of spare time to make it work well.
Fortunately I get very very few support mails, so I figure that it is well rounded.

Jesse