checking kernel options

Mike Small smallm at panix.com
Mon Sep 1 14:09:39 EDT 2003


Do you have security patches for the issues with that kernel?
Seems to me there were about four with that one, and I'm
not sure they were all local.

On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 05:41:04AM -0400, Stephen Anthony wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I recently spun a 2.4.20 kernel and absent-mindedly forgot to add
> fat/dos filesystem support. When I went to mount fd0, I got a "not a
> support filesystem" error. 
> 
> No problem, says I. I'll respin with the support. So, using xconfig, I
> made sure I had the support selected for fat, msdos, umsdos and vfat;
> not as modules, but compiled-in support. Recompiled and booted new
> kernel. 
> 
> But I still get the same error when I try mounting fd0.
> 
> Anyway I can confirm the support is compiled into the kernel? 
> 
> Or am I missing something else?
> 
> Steve

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