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On Thursday 17 May 2007 18:04, Mick wrote: |
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> > Thanks Dan, as I said above I tried to extract the MBR out of it by |
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> > running: |
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> > dd if=/dev/sda of=/tmp/r1 bs=512 |
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> > But couldn't access it whatsoever. |
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> Oops! I could access it, but of course I had to try it as root! |
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> Right, I've got it on my hard drive now, but still cannot mount it: |
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> # mount -t vfat /dev/loop2 /tmp/r1 |
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> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop2, |
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> missing codepage or other error |
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> In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try |
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> dmesg | tail or so |
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IIRC, that is not the right syntax for mounting a loopback filesystem. |
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If /tmp/r1 is the file containing the filesystem, try |
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mount -o loop /tmp/r1 /mnt/somewhere |
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and make sure you have support for loopback devices in your kernel. |
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