mount problems

sderaadt · Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2003 11:31 am Post subject: mount problems

Hi

I've just installed Gentoo using the (excellent) installation instructions. I got to the bottom, and rebooted.

It booted fine, but my network card (8139too) wasn't picked up (although it worked fine during the install). Running 'lsmod' turns up empty, and when I ran 'modprobe 8139too', it says 'modprobe: Can't locate module 8139too'! Indeed, when I did 'ls /lib/modules/*/kernel/drivers/net/*', only 'dummy.o' is returned. It appears the actual driver wasn't copied during the installation - or was deleted after installation.

So, I thought I would just copy the driver from another machine with Linux. I put it onto a floppy, but was unable to mount the floppy in Gentoo. Running 'mount -t dos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy' returned the error message 'mount: fs type dos not supported by kernel'. The same if I tried msdos, vfat or auto as the fs types. The floppy worked fine during the install, but not after the reboot.

So, after trawling this forum and finding that recompiling the kernel with this option was the solution, I ran 'cd /usr/src/linux' then 'make menuconfig'. In the filesystem category, I selected the dos, msdos and vfat options, then ran 'make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install'.

But after rebooting, I still got the same error when trying to mount the floppy. I tried several times. I tried with the menuconfig dos, msdos and vfat options both compiled into the kernel ('*') and as modules ('M'), but that didn't seem to help.

Is it possible that since these modules weren't selected during the install, the source code wasn't copied across (or was deleted during cleanup)?

I'm hoping that once the 8139too driver is in place it will all just work, since it is looking for it at boot-time (and failing to find it).

Thanks for your help

Sebastian

keenan · n00b Joined: 30 Oct 2002 Posts: 33

Not too sure about the floppy, I thought it was a seperate module...anyways I haven't used mine in years. Check over your config settings again..

As for the RTL8139, the module is in

sderaadt · Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2003 10:13 pm Post subject: Thanks!

Thanks keenan!

That fixed it

Now I just have to get the floppy working...

sderaadt · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2003 10:10 pm Post subject:

In case anyone is wondering, I got vfat support for the floppy drive and windows partitions. If I just recompiled the kernel, it had no effect. I had to wipe my gentoo partitions clean and start fresh. I ensured the dos, msdos and vfat options were selected in menuconfig, and it worked.

dol-sen · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 12:23 am Post subject:

You shouldn't have to wipe the drives and start over! If you have problems with kernel compiles, doing a make mrproper will clean out & reset the kernel source, failing that try re-emerging the kernel source.

Brian

sderaadt · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 9:19 am Post subject:

I tried that, but both times make mrproper failed - it couldn't find the sources or something.

Thanks for the susggestion tho!

I am about to begin my third reinstall, 'cos I forgot devfs support the second time. :roll: