Kernel building help: what am I missing?

[Joel Hammer]

Does the <M> mean module?

If so, run lsmod to see if that module has loaded. 

My biggest headache with building kernels is modules. I used to build
just monolithic kernels to avoid them entirely. Finally, when faced with
the necessity of modules, I resorted just to loading them with my
own scripts instead of relying upon whatever mechanism the distro has
provided. The only hard part is knowing the order in which to load them. The
file modules.dep somewhere in /lib/modules is very helpful in this regard.

Now, I like modules and find them very useful.

Joel


the On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 11:52:57PM -0800, David Aikema wrote:
> 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
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