Tiemo -- Please clarify what you are doing.
First, when you write --
>Then I try to mount the CF Card (which is VFAT and VFAT is in my kernel)
>with
>
>mount -t vfat /dev/hdxx /mnt
>
>The response is then:
>
>kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-33, errno = 2
>mount: /dev/hde is not a valid block device
what actual command are you entering? The "hdxx" in your command line is
inconsistent with the "hde" in the result. I'm *guessing* that when you
write "hdxx", you mean you actually type something like "hde1". But that
should return an error with respect to (in my example) hde1, not hde.
Second, I'm uncertain as to why you are getting a modprobe message (you
seem to be saying that you did everything right but it still doesn't work,
and that's not the sort of description that anyone can intelligently
troubleshoot), but the block-major-33 just refers to hde, hdf, and the
various hde* and hdf* devices (which differ by their minor number).
Simliarly, block-major-22 is hdc and hdd, and 3 is hda and hdb. Do you have
an /etc/modules.conf file in your root filesystem? If yes, what is
block-major-33 an alias for?
All this suggests to me that either your kernel lacks IDE support, or your
hardware uses a non-standard IDE controller.
During the boot/init process, does the kernel report finding any of the IDE
devices? (For that matter, are there any IDE devices other than the CF?
What is the kernel loading from? What is your root filesystem on, or loaded
from if it is a RAM disk)
A standard Linux kernel (I just checked 2.4.17) should need only these
choices included
<*> Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk/cdrom/tape/floppy support
<*> Include IDE/ATA-2 DISK support
to support regular IDE drives. So if you have a hard disk on the system
that you cannot access, as your mention of block-major-3 seems to suggest,
then you have a basic problem with the kernel's IDE support. If the devices
in question are all CFs (or the same CF moved fom one IDE channel to
another), then your problem may be specific to the CF stuff, an area I am
not familiar with.
I don't know is this sort of response is helpful or not. If not, I'm sorry.
At 12:58 PM 9/28/02 +0930, Tiemo Kr�ger - mycable GmbH wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm not sure if I found the right group to place my request, so pls
>apologize
>for any inconvenience.
>
>I'm busy porting 2.4.17 and .18 to a MIPS 32 board.
>There is a PCMCIA slot and I want to access a CompactFlash Card in a
>belonging "CF to PCMCIA" adapter.
>Hotplugging of the Card seems to work as I get belonging messages.
>
>Then I try to mount the CF Card (which is VFAT and VFAT is in my kernel)
>with
>
>mount -t vfat /dev/hdxx /mnt
>
>The response is then:
>
>kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-33, errno = 2
>mount: /dev/hde is not a valid block device
>
>I don't have modprobe in my root filesystem and during testing I want to
>work just with in-kernel-compiled modules and not loadable modules.
>
>So it seems that I missed to compile the belonging modules
>for hda/hdb hdc/hdd hde/hdf into my kernel.
>I've tried already some options but didn't found out a correct setting.
>Is there any essential module which has to be activated?
>As far as I've seen there are for the above named devices the
>block-major 3, 22 and 33 responsible.
>Do they correspond to any specific kernel config setting?
>
>If I remove the "loadable-modules" option from the kernel I just get
>the message:
>mount: /dev/hdx is not a valid block device
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