mounting the hard drive in PicoBSD

[Gary W. Swearingen]

"kennonward" <kennonward at netgazers.net> writes:

> The /etc/fstab line for the HD is:
> /dev/wd0s1  /dos    msdos  rw 0 0
>
> I get the following when I run mount:
>
> mount /dev/wd0s1  /dos
> mount: /dev/wd0s1 on /dos: incorrect super block

That mount command is trying to mount the partition UFS.  With your
/etc/fstab, you should use either of these:
  mount /dev/wd0s1
  mount /dos

> I have only a limited subset of the BSD system.  I tried runing dd I got sh: dd: not found.
> fsck /dev/wd0s1
> **dev/rwd0s1
> BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG
> ioctl (GCINFO): Invalidargument
> fsck: /dev/rw0s1: can't read disk label

Probably the same default (UFS).

> Because I am running one disk PicoBSD I have only a few of the programs that would normally be on an Unix system.  I have limited resorces no fdisk or utilities such as df,mount,mount_msdos,mount_ext2fs, mount_cd9660.  All of these give similar responses.  I still have no HD access.

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If you're going to use a msdos FS, then I suppose you'll need to
ensure that your picoBSD build includes the necessary msdosfs and
other tools.  IIRC, you tell it what to include and it stuffs them all
into one big, but crunched, executable, etc.  (My picoBSD box doesn't
have a HD, so I haven't had many HD problems. :)