problems accessing ms-dos partition

[jrv at mbunix.mitre.org (Jim Van Zandt)]

Howard Siegel USG <hpsiegel at zk3.dec.com> writes:
>When I boot linux, I get the following message --
>
>---------------------------
>[MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 16,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022]
>[me=0xf8,cs=8,#f=2,fs=1,fl=160,ds=321,de=512,data=353,se=0,ts=328032,ls=512]
>Transaction block size = 512
>VFS: Can't find a valid MSDOS filesystem on dev 0x0301.
>---------------------------
>
>-- and I can't mount my /dev/hda1 (which is my ms-dos partition) in
>linux to /dos.

Assuming you can access that partition with DOS, my only suggestion is
that the partition is not where you think it is.  Can you see it with
"fdisk /dev/hda"?  Maybe you need "mount -t msdos /dev/hdb1 /dos".
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                      - Jim Van Zandt