USB HDD not mounting in 4.02 live cd

[rwcitek]

Hello, I'm having the same problem. I can't mount an external usb hardrive.
I ran your command and here's the post.txt

Almost. Here they are again, this time in numerical order:

1) boot knoppix with the USB drive UN-plugged from the machine.
2) type this into a root terminal (K > KNOPPIX > Root shell) :

dmesg -c >& /dev/null

3) plug in the USB drive
4) type these commands:

(set -x
dmesg
cat /proc/partitions
cat /etc/fstab
ls -la /mnt/
) >& post.txt

5) post the contents of post.txt.

Regards,
- Robert
http://www.cwelug.org

[TheZeusJuice]

Ah, sorry. This time I followed your instructions exactly as you said.

+ dmesg
+ cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name

3 0 39070080 hda
3 1 10136983 hda1
3 2 21093345 hda2
3 3 7831687 hda3
7 0 3266250 loop0
240 0 5270144 cloop0
240 2 1873216 cloop2
+ cat /etc/fstab
/proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/sys /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
/dev/pts /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/auto/floppy auto user,noauto,exec,umask=000 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/auto/cdrom auto user,noauto,exec,ro 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ntfs noauto,users,exec,ro,umask=000,uid=knoppix,gid=kno ppix 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000,uid=knoppix,gid=knoppi x 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000,uid=knoppix,gid=knoppi x 0 0
+ ls --color=auto -la /mnt/
total 5
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 1024 Nov 13 16:50 .
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 1024 Nov 13 11:50 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Nov 13 16:50 auto
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Nov 13 16:50 cdrom -> /mnt/auto/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Nov 13 16:50 floppy -> /mnt/auto/floppy
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Nov 13 16:50 hda1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Nov 13 16:50 hda2
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Nov 13 16:50 hda3

dunno if it affects anything, but I'm running knoppix off an .iso on my regular hardrive, here's the grub menu.lst entry:

title Knoppix 4.0.2
kernel (hd0,2)/knoppix/linux ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=791 nomce quiet bootfrom=/dev/hda3/knoppix/*.iso noprompt dma screen=1280x800 lang=us
initrd (hd0,2)/knoppix/minirt_reiser.gz