Kernel building help: what am I missing? [solved]

[David Aikema]

I assumed that in the native language support section, when it said '"Default 
NLS Option: "iso8859-1"' that meant that particular module would be included 
by default.  Now that I added in 'NLS ISO 8859-1  (Latin 1; Western European 
Languages)' the partition mounts just fine.

David Aikema

On December 1, 2002 01:58 pm, davidaikema at shaw.ca wrote:
> ----- 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?