Re: FAT support in 2.6.x kernels

From: David Raleigh Arnold (darnold4_at_cox.net)
Date: 09/15/04 

Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 10:51:29 -0400

On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 03:49:18 -0700, Yordan Pavlov wrote:

> Hi!
> I'm running Debian Sarge with customly compiled kernel 2.6.8.1. However
> although i add:
>
> MSDOS fs support
> VFAT (Windows-95) fs support
>
> as modules, whenever i try to mount my FAT partitions it says: Kernel
> doesn't support VFAT.
>
> I read the help of those tho options and it says: "This will only work if
> you said Y to DOS FAT fs support as well", however i couldn't find where
> this options is.
>
> Any help is appreciated!

This drives me crazy too. You installed a precompiled kernel. Of course
you have vfat support, but you have not loaded the module. Most of the
READMEs, etc., are for the guy who already compiled your kernel for
debian. You want to run modconf on it. $ man modconf. daveA 

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