On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 23:58, Chris Barnes wrote: > Hi, me again. > I recently compiled a new kernel (2.4.21) for my mandrake 9.1 system, and it seems > to be working fine (even my wireless card works! Dlink dwl-520+ with TI chipset), > but my supermounted filesystems don’t want to work and I’m not sure why. > > I have compiled the new kernel with just about everything as a module, but when the > system starts and tries to mount the local filesystems I get errors about > “supermount not supported by kernel”. > > Supermount worked fine with the kernel shipped with Mandrake 9.1 (2.4.18 or 2.4.19 I > cant remember). > > Its bugging me that supermount no longer works because now I have to mount my > cd-rom, floppy, sandisk, etc as root and only root has access to those filesystems. > > Can anyone tell me what I need to compile in to the kernel to get supermount support?
Supermount is a Mandrake specific patch. First thing to check is that you're using Mandrake kernel sources. If you're using a "stock" kernel then you won't be able to get supermount to work. The other thing that has bitten me before is forgetting to run "depmod -a" after the installation of the kernel. If you just want to get a newer kernel on your system though, I find the easiest way to do that is to download the RPMs of the latest kernel (2.4.22-10mdk or 2.6.0-0.test5.1mdk) from cooker and install that. HTH James. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
