Hi all!

I installed RedHat 7.0 on my newly acquired hard drive last week. Friday, actually. And, lo and behold, only 2 days later I have something I can't figure out. I hope you all can help...

Okay, here's the deal. I have a dual boot RH7/WinMe system. Everything was running fine until I used the "update" feature in RedHat. After the update feature I can no longer mount the other drives in my system. The floppy OR the vfat drives.

I get this:

mount: /dev/<drive here> has wrong major or minor number

I get several errors about dependencies when Linux is booting as well.

Am I going to have to re-install? Can I un-update somehow?
I have a Notes.txt file in my home dir and I'd really like to at least get that onto floppy...if not, it's not too big of a deal.

Thanks,
Angela

What is thepartition setup on your machine? (i.e. where is ME installed and where is Linux installed)

What does /etc/fstab look like?

Thanks for replying.

Partition info:

I have two physical drives.

Drive One:
C: partition with WinMe
D: partition for Storage

Drive Two:
Linux

/etc/fstab display:

LABEL=/ / ext2 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,user 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,user 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
/dev/hdb6 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/c vfat noauto,user 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/d vfat noauto,user 0 0

There are a few FAILED messages upon bootup. I did a tail of the messages log:

localhost modprobe: modprobe: Cant open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/modules.dep (no such file or directory)
adsl-connect: ADSL connections lost; attempting reconnection

I get several errors when booting into Linux -- dependency errors with the file mentioned above, "NFS lockd: lockdsvc:" fails, and eth0 fails.

Due to the ADSL and eth0 errors, I have no internet connection. So with that and not being able to mount the drives, getting this info onto the messageboard is quite a task! :|

Thanks,
Angela

What command are you using to mount say the floppy for instance?

If "mount /mnt/floppy" isn't working, then try "mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy"
If that doesn't work, what does this show:
"ls -l /dev/fd0"

It looks like you have the Windows C: drive on the first primary partition on the primary master drive. What command are you using to mount that?

If "mount /mnt/c" isn't working, then try
"mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/c"
If that doesn't work, what does this show:
"ls -l /dev/hda*"

Your NFS problem is not critical. We can look at that later.

If "/sbin/ifconfig -a" shows your NIC, then your eth0 problem can probably be fixed by running "/usr/sbin/netconfig"

I don't know about the ADSL errors. Do you have some kind of ADSL adapter inside your machine???

I have a WinME and RH7.0 dual boot on my laptop. I can compare my setup to yours tonight when I get home.

To mount a drive I was using mount /mnt/<drive here>. It was working before I did the "update". So was my ethernet card so that's what screwed everything up.

ls -/dev/fd0 shows this:
brw-rw---- 1 angela floppy 2, 0 Aug 24 2000 /dev/fd0

when I tried 'mount -t mdsos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy' I got:
mount: fs type msdos not supported by kernel

when I tried 'mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/c' I got:
mount: /dev/hda1 has wrong major or minor number

As far as my ADSL internet connection goes, I downloaded and installed the client from http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe (most Sympatico Linux users use this) to use ADSL. I tried re-installing and reconfiguring that, (after running netconfig) to no avail.

Also, I ran sndconfig and got another error about not having the right kernel to run that utility, which doesn't make sense since I had already run it /before/ the update.

I haven't done anything that can't easily be redone if I reload it, most of my time was spent figuring out HOW to do the things I did, so maybe I should just start over again from scratch. An hour of an install vs. a LONG time trying to get back to the ?original? kernel/configuration I had...

Grrr. I love challenges.
~Angela

A quick install is better if you don't have problems getting things set back up the way you had them.
Quite often, this is a problem with upgrading a server that people use everyday, but if its just your workstation, and you don't mind.. a reinstall of RH v7.0 should fix you right up in the shortest time possible.

Sorry, but why reinstall the system?
You just have to recompile the kernel.
It was also updated by the redhat update-tool but not properly configured.