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, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Joel Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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? _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
