Re: tlug: FAT32 mount problem

[<mike.fabian@example.com>]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com> writes:

>   Probably what is happening is that your /etc/conf.modules is
>   incorrectly set up.  vfat is presumably supported by a module, so when 
>   the kernel is loaded into memory, it's not there.  What should happen
>   first is one of two things:
>
>   1. the vfat module is explicitly inserted     2. kerneld is started
>
>   Only then will mount -a in the init process work.
>
>   Evidently these two steps have been reversed somehow.

Thank you very much. I added "insmod vfat" before the "mount -a" in
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit and now the vfat partition mounts correctly at
boot time. 

(kerneld was alread started before the "mount -a". /etc/conf.modules
is an empty file on my system.).

Mike

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