Hi everyone,

I've downloaded the ext2FS driver to be able to read my linux
partition, and I'm now trying to mount it.

I've followed the instructions that come with ext2fs:
+ copy the driver to L:
+ create a mountlist with giggledisk
+ modify the mountlist
+ run mount, or copy to devs:dosdrivers

Well it just doesn't work. Mount tells me:

Ram Disk:> mount LNX: debug
Mount: Current DevName <LNX:>
Mount: search for devname <LNX:>
CheckDevice: <LNX>
CheckDevice: object doesn't exists
ReadMountList: find <LNX> in mountlist <lnx>
ReadFile: <lnx>
ParseMountList: <LNX>
ParseMountList: buffer <FileSystem>
ParseMountList: ReadItem res 1
ParseMountList: failure
ERROR: Device 'LNX:' not found in file 'lnx'
Mount: failed with error 5001

In the bottom of this post I'l put ther original (giggledisk) and
modified mountlists.

BTW, when I mount SMBFS: (samba), Ambient does not display an Icon. I
was told it was probable a prob with mosnet, but the same happens with
miami and genesis. There is a disk.icon present in the target drive.
How can I declare that a new device was mounted so ambient notices?
Besides that, SMBFS works just fine.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

---------------
Original mountlist
/*
** DosDriver automatically created by GiggleDisk
**
** GiggleDisk (c)2005 Guido Mersmann
**
*/

FileSystem = L:EXT2FileSystem
Device = ide.device
Unit = 0
BlockSize = 512
Surfaces = 1
SectorsPerBlock = 1
BlocksPerTrack = 9541
Reserved = 2
PreAlloc = 0
Interleave = 0
MaxTransfer = 0x00FFFFFF
Mask = 0xFFFFFFFF
LowCyl = 9018
HighCyl = 16382
Buffers = 30
BufMemType = 0
StackSize = 16384
Priority = 0
GlobVec = -1
DosType = 0x4C4E5800
Activate = 1
Mount = 0
/* Bootable = FALSE */


Modified mountlist
FileSystem = L:EXT2FileSystem
Device = ide.device
Unit = 0
BlockSize = 512
Surfaces = 1
SectorsPerBlock = 1
BlocksPerTrack = 9541
Reserved = 2
PreAlloc = 0
Interleave = 0
MaxTransfer = 0x00FFFFFF
Mask = 0xFFFFFFFF
LowCyl = 9018
HighCyl = 16382
Buffers = 128
BufMemType = 0
StackSize = 16384
Priority = 0
GlobVec = -1
DosType = 0x45585432
Activate = 1
Mount = 0
/* Bootable = FALSE */

If you rename your mountlist from LNX to LNX0 it should work.

~toto

If your mountlist is in RAM: use following:
cd ram:
mount LNX
(without colon after device name).

I gave that Mountlist an Projekt-Icon

default Programm: MorphOS:MorphOS/c/Mount

Tooltypes: DEVICE=ide.device
UNIT=0
ACTIVATE=1

from now I could start mounting with an doubleklick

I've tried to rename it to LNX0, and mount it without the ":" and it
does not work (see results at the end of the post).

I've also copied the mountlist to DEVS:Dosdrivers/ to try to automount
it during boot, but I get an error.

Any other ideas?


-------------------------------------
Ram Disk:> mount LNX0 from RAM:LNX0 debug
Mount: Current DevName <LNX0>
Mount: search for mountfile <LNX0>
Mount: Changed directories...
Mount: try File <Ram Disk:LNX0>
ReadMountFile: <Ram Disk:LNX0>
ReadMountFile: mount <LNX0>
CheckDevice: <LNX0>
CheckDevice: object doesn't exists
ReadMountFile: readfile
ReadFile: <Ram Disk:LNX0>
ReadMountFile: preparsefile
ReadMountFile: parsemountfile
ParseMountFile:
ReadArgs..
FileSystem = L:EXT2FileSystem Device = ide.device Unit = 0 BlockSize = 512 Surfaces = 1 SectorsPerBlock = 1 BlocksPerTrack = 9541 Reserved = 2 PreAlloc = 0 Interleave = 0 MaxTransfer = 0x00FFFFFF Mask = 0xFFFFFFFF LowCyl = 9018 HighCyl = 16382 Buffers = 128 BufMemType = 0 StackSize = 16384 Priority = 0 GlobVec = -1 DosType = 0x45585432 Activate = 1 Mount = 1

ReadMountArgs:
FileSystem = L:EXT2FileSystem Device = ide.device Unit = 0 BlockSize = 512 Surfaces = 1 SectorsPerBlock = 1 BlocksPerTrack = 9541 Reserved = 2 PreAlloc = 0 Interleave = 0 MaxTransfer = 0x00FFFFFF Mask = 0xFFFFFFFF LowCyl = 9018 HighCyl = 16382 Buffers = 128 BufMemType = 0 StackSize = 16384 Priority = 0 GlobVec = -1 DosType = 0x45585432 Activate = 1 Mount = 1

ReadMountArgs: ReadArgs failed
ReadMountArgs: bad template
Parse: ReadArgs failed
ReadMountFile: parsemountfile error 5002
Mountfile 'Ram Disk:LNX0' is invalid: bad template
Mount: failed with error 5002

Maybe it's your DosType value, it's supposed to be 0x4C4E5800 just like in your GiggleDisk mountlist.

Here's my mountlist:

/*
** DosDriver automatically created by GiggleDisk
**
** GiggleDisk (c)2005 Guido Mersmann
**
*/

FileSystem = L:EXT2FileSystem
Device = ide.device
Unit = 1
BlockSize = 512
Surfaces = 1
SectorsPerBlock = 1
BlocksPerTrack = 9771
Reserved = 2
PreAlloc = 0
Interleave = 0
MaxTransfer = 0x7FFFFFFF
Mask = 0xFFFFFFFF
LowCyl = 1
HighCyl = 4177
Buffers = 256
BufMemType = 0
StackSize = 16384
Priority = 0
GlobVec = -1
DosType = 0x4C4E5800
Activate = 1
/* Mount = 1 - MorphOS is not supporting this value */
/* Bootable = FALSE */

I've set it up in Devs/DOSDrivers as LNX0 with the same tooltypes as Otti. My Ubuntu partition won't mount if it's called LNX instead of LNX0.

~toto

@Toto: Thanks a lot, I'll try changing the DosType and commenting the "mount = 0" line.

@Toto: Thanks a lot, it now works. Commenting the "mount" did the
trick.