iamroot 0 Posted June 27, 2005 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. Share this post Link to post
egorgry 0 Posted June 27, 2005 Try using diff to comparing your kernel config files. you may just need to add support for fat32 to the new kernel. Share this post Link to post
danleff 0 Posted June 27, 2005 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? Share this post Link to post
iamroot 0 Posted June 28, 2005 I installed the 2.6.9 kernel and my external HDD works fine in it. Weird. I thought the newer kernel is supposed to work better than the older one. Share this post Link to post
