Kernel building help: what am I missing?

[David Aikema]

Warning: I'm not particularly experienced in kernel-building

I downloaded 2.4.20 the other day and built it this evening.  Now, running 
this new kernel of mine, my windows partition refuses to mount (something 
which worked before so there shouldn't be any problems in /etc/fstab):

# mount /windows
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda2,
       or too many mounted file systems

In my kernel configuration only these three options appear to be relevant.

<M> DOS FAT fs support
< >   MSDOS fs support
<M>   VFAT (Windows-95) fs support

I did modprobe vfat before attempting to mount my windows filesystem so it 
should be a problem of modules not being loaded.  The middle option there 
appeared to not be needed for vfat to work, at least that's what the help for 
the option seemed to suggest.

Can anyone suggest what I might be missing?

David Aikema