PDA

Click to See Complete Forum and Search --> : Can't mount FAT partitions after recompiling kernel

Giscardo
07-31-2001, 03:01 AM
Under mandrake 8 i just recompiled teh kernel to 2.4.7, and i can't mount either of my two FAT32 paritions. It used to automount them for me. I don't have X installed right now (working on it, but i need to access my windows partitions cause that's where i download my files to, since I am downloading the XF86 files under my win2k installation. My /etc/fstab didn't change at all over the recompile.
dvdnut
07-31-2001, 04:17 AM
did you compile fat access in your kernel?
ive never done it myself but i have heard people mention that it is a part you need to include as it would be useless if your pc was linux only

its an option which you may have missed

OR
the newest kernel aint ready? maybe a bit buggy

what does the kernel.org site say?
Giscardo
07-31-2001, 04:24 AM
Yes i compiled fat support in my kernel. The same thing happened to me on a previous mandrake 8 install after upgrading the kernel. Back then i had a full install and i used one of mandrake's graphical configuration utilities (i think it was under harddrake) to mount the partitions manually. When i type mount /dev/hda1 it says something like "cannot mount fs, bad supernode or soemthing like that"
Giscardo
07-31-2001, 06:01 PM
bump, can anyone help please? i Can't install anything untill i can mount fat32 patitions cause i have download a bunch of tarballs under win2k
DMR
07-31-2001, 08:16 PM
Could you post your fstab?
Also, can you mount the FAT partitions explicitly:mount -t vfat /dev/<your_Win_partition> /mnt/<your_Win_mount_point>

[ 31 July 2001: Message edited by: DMR ]
Giscardo
08-03-2001, 08:19 AM
I installed slack 8, and recompiled to 2.4.7 and this problem didn't happen again.
Evil Jeff
08-03-2001, 09:48 AM
Another thing to consider is that by default win2k uses NTFS instead of FAT32.
Giscardo
08-04-2001, 06:22 AM
I installed Win2K onto a FAT32 partition so that it would be easier to mount under linux. But thanks for the effort. I switched to Slack, and recompiled ot 2.4.7, and the problem didn't happend this time.
Malakin
08-04-2001, 07:39 AM
Just so you don't think it's a mandrake issue, I've used a ton of different kernels inluding 2.4.7 which I'm running now and I've never had any problems mounting my fat32 or ntfs (ro of course) win2k partitions in mandrake 8.0.
Giscardo
08-04-2001, 07:20 PM
Ok, then it was probably something to do with the packages I chose to install under mandrake or something.