Kernel building help: what am I missing?

[davidaikema@shaw.ca]

----- Original Message -----
From: Joel Hammer <joel at hammershome.com>
Date: Sunday, December 1, 2002 6:11 am
Subject: Re: Kernel building help: what am I missing?

> Does the <M> mean module?

Yup.

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

> > I did modprobe vfat before attempting to mount my windows 
> filesystem so it 
> > should be a problem of modules not being loaded.

I did check lsmod and VFAT and FAT modules were loaded 

> My biggest headache with building kernels is modules. I used to build
> just monolithic kernels to avoid them entirely. Finally, when faced 
> withthe 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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