[Tfug] Weird partition type

[Benjamin Krein]

Thanks for the responses thus far!  Here's some additional info based on
the responses:

1. Trying to mount as 'vfat' :

bkrein at bkdebhp:~$ sudo mount -t vfat /dev/hda2 /mnt
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda2,
       missing codepage or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

bkrein at bkdebhp:~$ dmesg |tail
FAT: invalid media value (0x4b)
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hda2.

2. Trying 'file -s' : 

bkrein at bkdebhp:~$ sudo file -s /dev/hda2
/dev/hda2: Sendmail frozen configuration  - version \315E\323A\240K\341r
\362'\363 \351d\345a\315E\323A\240K\341r\362'\363 \351d\345

3. (Just for grins) Output of 'fdisk' :
Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1        1919    15414336    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2            9704        9729      208845   88  Linux plaintext
/dev/hda3            1920        2012      747022+  82  Linux swap /
Solaris
/dev/hda4            2013        9703    61777957+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5   *        2013        2036      192748+  83  Linux
/dev/hda6            2037        3252     9767488+  83  Linux
/dev/hda7            3253        9703    51817626   83  Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

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As for the Dell Utility partition stuff, I had seen that LinuxQuestions
thread as well.  The additional info about it being FAT16 is good to
know, but doesn't seem to help me at this point.  

I was happy to find the source code on HP for the QuickPlay stuff, but
at first glance it only appears to be the source for a 2.4 Linux kernel
and related GNU utils and absolutely nothing unique to QuickPlay itself.
If anyone else is equally curious about the workings of QuickPlay and
would like to know what's in the source package (requires Windows to
unpack the source), here's the list:

Open source list from QP 1.0
1. Kernel: 
linux-2.4.26.tar.bz2

2. Driver
alsa-driver-1.0.5.tar.bz2

3. Utilities and Librarys
freetype-2.1.9.tar.bz2
atk-1.2.4.tar.gz
bash-2.05a.tar.gz
binutils-2.13.2.tar.bz2
e2fsprogs-1.32.tar.gz
fileutils-4.1.tar.gz
gawk-3.1.1.tar.gz
gawk-3.1.tar.gz
glib-2.2.0.tar.bz2
glibc-2.3.1.tar.gz
glibc-linuxthreads-2.3.1.tar.gz
grep-2.5.tar.bz2
grub-0.94.tar.gz
gtk+-2.2.4.tar.gz
gzip-1.2.4a.tar.gz
kbd-1.08.tar.bz2
libcap_1.10.orig.tar.gz
libpng-1.2.7.tar.bz2
libtermcap-2.0.8-4.src.rpm
libtiff-3.5.7-2.tar.gz
libtool_1.5.6.orig.tar.gz
modutils-2.4.22.tar.bz2
ncurses-5.3.tar.gz
pango-1.2.4.tar.gz
sed-4.0.8.tar.gz
sh-utils-2.0.tar.gz
syslinux-2.08.tar.gz
sysvinit-2.84.tar.gz
tar-1.13.tar.gz
util-linux-2.11y.tar.bz2

Thanks for any other ideas you guys have!

Benjamin Krein