problems with 2.6.11-1.35 kernel

#1 iamroot

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Posted 27 June 2005 - 12:59 PM

I'm intending to switch over to Fedora Core 4 from FC3 so I got a portable hard disk to backup my 5 GB+ worth of files and documents. I was worried that my portable HDD wouldn't work but was really relieved when I plugged it in yesterday and it auto-mounted like a flash drive. However, this morning I upgraded to the 2.6.11-1.35 kernel and now the portable HDD won't auto-mount. When I tried to manual mount, I got a msg saying " fat32 is not supported by kernel" or something like that. I tried to us my old kernel but it wouldn't boot up. Got an error msg "kernel panic".Can anyone help me out here? I really need my HDD to backup.

#2 egorgry

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Posted 27 June 2005 - 02:33 PM

Try using diff to comparing your kernel config files. you may just need to add support for fat32 to the new kernel.

#3 danleff

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Posted 28 June 2005 - 01:54 AM

Can you post your /etc/fstab file contents?

What commands did you try to manually mount the drive? something like...

mount -t vfat /dev/<location of drive>...

...and the portable disk device is USB?