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Re: [SLE] Can't mount the UnixWare 7.1.4 drive on SUSE Linux 10.0
  • From: Ken Schneider <suse-list2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 09:25:20 -0400
  • Message-id: <1147094720.5538.4.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 03:50 -0600, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
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> I am trying to move a client to SUSE Linux 10.0 from SCO UnixWare 7.1.4.
> I did the following to be able to mount a UnixWare 7 drive on my SUSE
> Linux 10.0 system.
>
> cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.13-15.8/
> make cloneconfig
> make modules_prepare
> make menuconfig
> make xconfig
> make
> make modules
> make install
> make modules_install
> shutdown -g0 -y -i6
>
> I am able to see it....
>
> ...
> SCSI device sdb: 17773524 512-byte hdwr sectors (9100 MB)
> SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write through
> SCSI device sdb: 17773524 512-byte hdwr sectors (9100 MB)
> SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write through
> sdb: sdb1
> sdb1: <unixware: sdb5 sdb6 sdb7 >
> Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
> ...
> vxfs: ivalid olt magic number
> vxfs: unable to read olt
>
> Then I try to mount the drive with all of the below and I get...
>
> AOS:/boot # mount -r -t vxfs /dev/sdb1 /unixware7
>
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
> missing codepage or other error
> In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
> dmesg | tail or so
> vxfs: ivalid olt magic number
> vxfs: unable to read olt
>
What do you get if you use:
mount -r /dev/sdb1 /unixware7
Don't specify the filesystem, let the kernel figure out what is used.

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Ken Schneider
UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998


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