[ILUG] wrong major or minor number ?

[jac1]

Is the vfat stuff compiled in the kernel or as a module?
What about 'make modules_install'?


>===== Original Message From Declan Grady <Declan.Grady at nuvotem.com> =====
>In only my 2nd or 3rd attempt at compiling a kernel, I thought I had 
succeeded, but :
>Using lilo, i picked the 'latest' option which is 2.4.18.
>It boots ok, but cannot mount my vfat partition on /dev/hda1 during boot.
>
>I get an error message :
>mount: mount: /dev/hda1 has wrong major or minor number
>
>Since I also got a message  'modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-5' , I 
realised I had forgotten to do the 'make modules' step, so to be safe I did:
>
>make mrproper
>make xconfig
>make dep
>make bzImage
>
>..and copied the bzImage to my /boot as bzImage2.4.18.10july2002  which in in 
my lilo.conf, and I ran lilo again. I still get the 'wrong major or minor 
number' but not the modprobe error.
>
>This is on a redhat7.0 box
>
>If I choose the old kernel from lilo, it boots ok and does find the /dev/hda1 
and mounts it as vfat ok.
>(old kernel is the stock rh7.0 one, 2.2.16-22)
>
>in my /dev folder the hda's are all 3, something which I assume means major 
number 3, minor number = partition number ?
>
>
>brw-rw----	1 root  disk	3,   0 Aug 24  2000 hda
>brw-rw----	1 root	disk	3,   1 Aug 24  2000 hda1
>brw-rw----	1 root  disk	3,  10 Aug 24  2000 hda10
>brw-rw----      1 root  disk    3,  11 Aug 24  2000 hda11
><snip snip>
>brw-rw----      1 root  disk    3,   2 Aug 24  2000 hda2   <--This is my 
/boot partition (ext2)
>brw-rw----	1 root  disk	3,   6 Aug 24  2000 hda6   <--This is my / partition 
(ext2)
>
>Any ideas ?
>
>Cheers,
>Declan
>
>
>
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