can't mount usb stick on kernel 2.6.11

saintpa · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 Dec 2004 Posts: 77

After moving on to kernel 2.6.11, i noticed that I'm having trouble with mounting usb sticks. The stick is recognized in windows, and I even tried to fdisk again and mkdosfs -F32. fsck reports no error. But here's what mount returns:

$ mount /dev/sdb1
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
or too many mounted file systems

Any clues?

saintpa · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 Dec 2004 Posts: 77

Nevermind folks, forgot to compile the correct char page for fat.

kierans · n00b Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Posts: 51

I have that problem under the 2.6 kernel. Could you please explain how you fixed it. What options in the kernel and such.

bkzshabbaz · Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 3:25 pm Post subject:

I get that message when I try to mount my mp3 Player. It would help if you could post your solution

dsd · Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 5:11 pm Post subject:

solution: dont use "make oldconfig" , and accept the defaults for settings which you dont fully understand
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Stever · Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 6:18 am Post subject:

I was having the same problem trying to set up my mp3 player for the first time. mtools and dosfstools could access it fine, but I couldn't mount it.

This article solved my problem - maybe it will help you as well:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-313522.html