1. show us the result of
Code:fdisk -l
Cannot mount anything
Hello, everybody!
I just installed Bactrack 4 on a USB drive. Had a little problem with GRUB, which I accidentaly installed on one of the hard drives so I couldn't start my PC without the USB. Eventually fixed it with super grub disk.
But now I have a different problem. Everything works completely fine when I boot up from the DVD I burned, but when I boot from the USB, I have completely no devices mounted. In /mnt/ I have only /usb/ which is empty. I have to 250gb SATA disks, each with 2 partitions and I naturally have the USB disk plugged in I booted from, with two partitions too. But none of them are mounted.
I tried mounting them manually in the usual way -
cd /mnt/
mkdir /mnt/sda1
mount /mnt/sda1 /dev/sda1
I get the error that this device is not a block device.
I tried to substitute sda1 with sda, sda1, sdb, sdb1, sdb2, sdc, sdc1, sdc2 - all with no success.
After hours of trying to find anything similar in this and other fourms, I found nothing.
I will apreciate any suggestions.
1. show us the result of
Code:fdisk -l
[COLOR="RoyalBlue"][SIZE="2"]Nought's had, all's spent, ... Where our desire is got without content
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Here it is.
Code:# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250058268160 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xd7fed7fe Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 1539 12361986 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 1540 30401 231834015 7 HPFS/NTFS Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250058268160 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xc5b1bd2e Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 65 1371 10498446 83 Linux /dev/sdb2 1372 30401 233183475 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sdb3 1 64 514048+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris Partition table entries are not in disk order Disk /dev/sdc: 16.1 GB, 16173236224 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1966 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000ebc72 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 * 1 919 7380843+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/sdc2 920 1966 8410027+ 5 Extended /dev/sdc5 920 1915 8000338+ 83 Linux /dev/sdc6 1916 1966 409626 82 Linux swap / Solaris
This command is not correct: mount /mnt/sda1 /dev/sda1
Mount syntax is the following:
mount <device> <mount point>
you are trying to do: mount <mount point> <device>
You can read `man mount` for more information.
Thanks, that worked
So I presume Backtrack 4 does not automount any disks to avoid changing them for forensic purposes, right?
mount NTFS try:
Code:mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1
[COLOR="RoyalBlue"][SIZE="2"]Nought's had, all's spent, ... Where our desire is got without content
[/COLOR][/SIZE]
i have been having similar problems:
http://forums.remote-exploit.org/new...backtrack.html
iof someone could take a look that would be much appreciated
cheers
yoma
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