Difficulty with the mount command

[carswellb58]

I'm scratching my head over this .....

I've installed my upgrade drive into a PC as Primary slave, with my Dos drive as the primary master.

I've booted the MFStoos CD and have a linux shell up.

From there I execute the command

mkdir /mnt/tivo1

which succeeds

Then I attempt to mount my tivo drive using

mount /dev/hdb /mnt/tivo1

but the response I get is:

mount: you must specify the filesystem type

I've tried booting multiple variations including byte swapping, and using only the tivo drive as the primary master, but no luck. I can't get the darn thing mounted. Can anyone make a suggestion as to what's wrong?

Thanks,

John Moses

[carswellb58]

Here's a bit more info .... the problem does seem byte swap related. I found this in the boot log


hda: Signature 1492, b39214
03:00: block 0 has signature 9214 rather than 1492
Unknown partition table



Still stumped as to how to fix. I'm in debt to anyone who can give me a push.


Thanks,

John

[carswellb58]

I need to clear up one point. In between my first and second post, I reconfigured. In the second post there was no dos drive. The only disk connected was the tivo disk as hda (primary master).

John

[carswellb58]

The problem was found to be between the chair and the keyboard.

(sigh)


John