Problems with Linux booting..

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March 25th, 2005, 09:59 PM
aura2

problems with SAM cracking

ok i was reading this tutorial found
http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=260337
I downloaded knoppix, kanotix, and trinux(on my XP box) as boot up disks and started each of them up and when i try to access my hardrive i get this:

Code:

mount /mnt/hda1

it gives me the error

Code:

can't find /mnt/hda1 in etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

I have tried a few other things like booting knoppix26 acpi=off and noapic, but i still get the same result.
Any suggestions on how to fix this problem?
March 25th, 2005, 10:05 PM
MrLinus

Hi there, I've renamed your thread to better reflect what the issue is. What kind of hardware setup do you have (SCSI, IDE)?

Additionally the command should be mount <device source> <mountpoint> (<mountpoint> being the place you want to mount it to such as / ) so in this case you might want to try mount /dev/hda1 /
March 25th, 2005, 10:16 PM
aura2

when i do the mount /dev/hda1 i get
/dev/hda or hda1 is not a valid block device
And as far as hardware i have SCSI
March 25th, 2005, 10:26 PM
MrLinus

Then you need to reference it as a scsi device rather than IDE. So try mount /dev/sda1 /
March 25th, 2005, 10:47 PM
aura2

When i do sda or sda1, i get the same error as i did with hda, it isnt a valid block device
March 25th, 2005, 10:54 PM
MrLinus

Well sda1 would stand for first scsi device, first partition on that scsi device. Without knowing how you have it partitioned (with Windows and what other SCSI devices are present) I can only guess the options. So, potentially try:

mount /dev/sda2 /

mount /dev/sdb1 /

mount /dev/sdc1 /

Might also want to do a cat /etc/fstab and paste the results here so we can see what it is that you have on your sytem (if anything)
March 25th, 2005, 11:18 PM
aura2

when i did each of those mounts, same error occurs as before.
and cat /etc/fstab got me this:

Code:

/proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /sys /sys sysfs noauto 0 0 /dev/pts /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/auto/floppy auto user,noauto,exec,umask=000 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/auto/cdrom auto user,noauto,exec,ro 0 0 /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/auto/cdrom1 auto users,noauto,exec,ro 0 0 # Added by KNOPPIX noauto,users,exec 0 0
March 26th, 2005, 12:45 AM
MrLinus

Hrmm... How many harddrives does this system have that you're booting your Knoppix on?

Ok. Let's try this:

fdisk /dev/hda or fdisk /dev/sda

Then press p (this should display the partition setup of the drive in question; copy and paste results to the thread)

Then press q to exit fdisk
March 26th, 2005, 07:29 PM
aura2

i only have 1 hardrive and when i tried to do
fdisk /dev/hda or fdisk /dev/sda
i get
unable to open /dev/sda or hda
i went through these just to make sure
sda/sdb/sdc/hda/hdb/hdc
but the same error came up
March 26th, 2005, 08:21 PM
MrLinus

Hrmm... Beginning to think you may have a setup that isn't necessarily supported by Knoppix. What kind of SCSI card is it and what kind of machine is it?
March 26th, 2005, 08:28 PM
aura2

ITE Disk Array 0 SCSI Disk Device
i am running a windows XP home eddition
The machine itself is built.
March 26th, 2005, 08:34 PM
MrLinus

ITE?! I've never heard of ITE.

Let's see if this gives anything: fdisk -l (that's a lowercase L)

Linux RAID HowTO
March 26th, 2005, 08:42 PM
|gridley|

It could be an onboard Promise Raid controller clone ?

try 'fdisk -l /dev/hde'

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Im assuming you can boot from the live version in the above, if you indeed can an output of `lspci` would come in helpfull probably.
March 26th, 2005, 08:57 PM
aura2

i tried fdisk -l and fdisk -l /dev/hde and nothing happend, it just went to the next command prompt. i will try the lspci and post it in a minute
March 26th, 2005, 09:11 PM
aura2

This is what I get from lspci

Code:

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (different version?) (rev c1) 0000:00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 1 (rev c1) 0000:00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 4 (rev c1) 0000:00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 3 (rev c1) 0000:00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 2 (rev c1) 0000:00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 5 (rev c1) 0000:00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 ISA Bridge (rev a4) 0000:00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce2 SMBus (MCP) (rev a2) 0000:00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4) 0000:00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4) 0000:00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4) 0000:00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97 Audio Controler (MCP) (rev a1) 0000:00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 External PCI Bridge (rev a3) 0000:00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2) 0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev c1) 0000:01:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10) 0000:01:0c.0 RAID bus controller: Integrated Technology Express, Inc. IT/ITE8212 Dual channel ATA RAID controller (PCI version seems to be IT8212, embedded seems (rev 11) 0000:01:0d.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. (formerly CMD Technology Inc) SiI 3512 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 01) 0000:01:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) 0000:02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)
March 27th, 2005, 11:26 AM
|gridley|

0000:01:0c.0 RAID bus controller: Integrated Technology Express, Inc. IT/ITE8212 Dual channel ATA RAID controller (PCI version seems to be IT8212, embedded seems (rev 11)
0000:01:0d.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. (formerly CMD Technology Inc) SiI 3512 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 01)

From ^^ it seems to me like you have an onboard raid controller.
I also have one but it is one of 'promise technologies' for which the first hard drive gets mapped to /dev/hde
Do you happen to know the brand/model number of your system board ?

With that information gathered perhaps you should try posting your question on 'http://www.linuxquestions.org/', its a linux specific forum.
March 27th, 2005, 06:46 PM
aura2

the brand and model of the board is. gigabyte k7 triton series, AGP8x/dual channel ddr with onboard raid
March 30th, 2005, 09:30 PM
|gridley|

You got an ATA(or SATA) onboard RAID controller.
Here is a howto.
http://rcswww.urz.tu-dresden.de/~hol...aid_howto.html

Since fdisk -l does not output anything in knoppix, the booted environment does not

reckonize the hard-drive.

Perhaps some boot options will help knoppix reckon you hdd

(http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&q=...G=Zoeken&meta=) , otherwise you

might want to try installing from a 'normal' installer like slack, debian or suse.
When using Debian be sure to boot the bf24 kernel at install time.

Once you have booted one of the install disks (http://www.linuxiso.org/), check out fdisk -l

again to see if the disk get reckonised.
If it does, follow the install instructions.

Otherwise, feel free to post more questions.

Cheers

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Feel free to post questions anyhow. [esc][:wq]