{"id":9111,"date":"2021-11-30T23:11:30","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T23:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=9111"},"modified":"2021-11-30T23:12:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T23:12:22","slug":"mounting-unknown-partition-type","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/linux\/mounting-unknown-partition-type\/31332.html","title":{"rendered":"Mounting Unknown Partition Type"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was given several PCs that have some type of embedded disk drive that contains a custom Linux Kernel that only runs one main program. I need to gain access to the disk to change the root password so I can gain access to the systems. I attempted to boot a Fedora Live CD and started the process. fdisk reveled three partitions. 1: Boot Partition (1.5MB) 2: OS Partition (238MB) 3: Main program space (6.5MB) I am able to mount partition 1 and 3 without any problems but partition 2 reports:<br \/>\n# mount \/dev\/sda2 \/mnt\/sda2<br \/>\nEXT2-fs (sda2): error: can&#8217;t find an ext2 filesystem on dev sda2<br \/>\nFAT: invalid media value (0x77)<br \/>\nmount: you must specify the filesystem type<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve tried several different types and none have worked. I know for sure this partition contains the critical files I need because I can not find any linux os files on the other two partitions and the lilo configuration file on the sda1 (\/etc\/lilo.conf) specifies \/dev\/sda2 as the root disk.<\/p>\n<p>Just for the record I have no access to any utilities nor console when the system is booted. The only thing I can report is when use Ctrl+Alt+F2 to be presented with the login prompt it says the Computer Name is &#8220;SuperStation&#8221;. I would appreciate any suggestions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":2},"question-category":[58],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-9111","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-linux"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/9111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=9111"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=9111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}