Can't Mount Partitions (Even after re-installing HAL)

**Israel** · 03-08-2007, 08:30 PM

1) Are you able to mount hda1 from the Live CD | DVD ?

Yes

if you run whichever of gparted and|or qtparted is on your Knoppix, or a GParted Live CD, does that give any more information?

None useful to this that I see...

**JohnnyH** · 03-08-2007, 09:30 PM

OK, if it was me, at this stage I would re-install the Knoppix system from the live CD | DVD (booting with the testcd cheatcode), configure rebuildfstab and ensure hal is running as described in http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=26759

**Israel** · 03-09-2007, 03:11 AM

When I ran testcd I it said that the kernel image could not be found. I don't understand how this could be when the cd runs so beautifully? And other than not being able to mount my Windoze partition I have no complaints about the hard-disk install from it. I've used it about a month? But I guess I must have a bad download. I guess, I'm off to download the cd again :(

**Harry Kuhman** · 03-09-2007, 04:12 AM

Originally Posted by Israel

... But I guess I must have a bad download. I guess, I'm off to download the cd again

There is one test for the ISO that is never wrong, it will confirm a good or bad download: the md5 checksum. If it is right you don't need to do another download and will gain nothing in doing so.

There is a chance that a bad burn or bad media resulted in a bad disc that the md5 checksum would not catch. Testcd might or might not catch this. But it's not the right tool for deciding if you had a bad download.

**AJones** · 03-09-2007, 06:53 PM

Hi Israel:

You seem to be having the same problems I faced JohnnyH and HarryKuhman both have posted here

http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=26802

My Knoppix DVD checks out fine with Md5Sum using testCD. I find this problem to be mostly since this HAL has appeared. I had teh same problem with PC-BSD installation. You can mount hd1 WinXp or any other with as root

root/ mount /media/hda1 then use the Icons on the desktop to open up in Knoqueror. While I think Knoppix 5.1.1 to be lot better than 4.0 I find wierd stuff like GRUB appearing late and booting taking time to start frequently to be odd.

Sorry I cant give you any suggestions

AJ

**Israel** · 03-10-2007, 12:54 AM

root/ mount /media/hda1 doesn't work for me buddy. Thanks for the suggestion though. I just downloaded another copy of Knoppix 5.1 and the checksum matched perfectly. I should be able to set it all back up tonight. If it doesn't work, you'll definitely be hearing back from me.