December 28, 2004 9:32 AM

rocketman24 said:

Why is it that when I instantcake my drive, it tells me that it created an hdc14 and hdc15? When I do an mfstools info /dev/hdc it hows /dev/hdc10 through hdc15. Using the mount command, I am not able to mount any of these successfully.

What happened to hdc4 and hdc7?

No matter how many times I bake this drive, I get the same thing. I even tried using an HD utility to wipe the entire drive (with zeros) and still no change.

The drive is a WD 1200JB (120gig). I followed instructions to a tee... cdrom primary slave... hd secondary master.

Please advise.

Take a step back...

What is it that you are actually trying to do? Why is it that you think you should be able to mount those partitions and what is it that is leading you to believe that InstantCake isn't working?

For answers to commonly asked questions, please refer to the
InstantCake Instructions and Release Notes,
Official InstantCake Discussion Thread, and the
Official PTVnet Discussion Thread

December 28, 2004 11:52 AM

rocketman24 said:

For some reason, I was not able to mount hdc4 or hdc7. So I did an mfstool info and all that was reported was what I stated above. I booted into another CD and it allowed me to mount hdc7... so I'm OK now.

I have a WD drive and it the jumper was on (what I thought) was a blank location, when in fact it was cable select. I reran IC and all seem well now.

Thanks!

It probably would have worked had you rebooted after the InstantCake build process; the partition map is only read by the kernel at boot time.

Also, I have no idea what type of unit you have, hence I have no idea what InstantCake CD you are using; some of the versions boot in a noswap mode which means you won't be able to directly mount /dev/hdc4 or /dev/hdc7 directly (what you are doing isn't what a typical InstantCake installation entails)

For answers to commonly asked questions, please refer to the
InstantCake Instructions and Release Notes,
Official InstantCake Discussion Thread, and the
Official PTVnet Discussion Thread