Ok! This is Weird. ( post setup )

toastermonkey · Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 4:33 pm Post subject: Ok! This is Weird. ( post setup )

It's not really an installation question, but I can't think of any other way to quantify that complies to the forum names.

Here's the deal:

Installed Gentoo about 2 months ago, it's been working like a charm. One of our redhat servers was exploited and the other redhat servers were compromised (I calmly pointed out to my sysadmin that my server running gentoo hadn't been compromised, and he calmly told me that was good, because he'd be using it to fix the others). Appearantly, some of the drives got pretty well Fubared, and badly needed a fsck'ing, but the redhat recovery disc wasn't doing the trick (?) I don't really know why it wasn't working, just that he decided to plug said drives into my gentoo box and fsck them like that. I didn't like it, but I couldn't stop him. So, we did that, which somehow added a copy of the redhat kernel to /usr/src. I deleted the redhat folders it added there, with more than a little concern, then tried to mount my boot partition to get rid of the entry it had made in menu.lst ( boot gentoo w00t or Redhat 2-4-19)...now here's the problem.

This is what I'm doing

mkdir /mnt/boot
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/boot

this is what I get

mount :fs type ntfs not supported by kernel

...uhm...why does it think my boot partition is NTFS? ( it's ext2)

it still boots fine, by the way. Just that..anyway. Any ideas?

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Naan Yaar · Bodhisattva Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 1549

This thread covers the same problem. Specifying the "-t" flag will allow the partition to be mounted correctly.

toastermonkey · Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 6:47 pm Post subject:

awesome. -t. I'll rememebr that. Thanks Naen!