Hi,

First time compiling a new kernel here and I'm having a few problems. I'm using kernel 2.4.9. Tried using 2.4.8 but got the same problems, so I switched back to 2.4.9. I'm running Mandrake 8.0.

First, my other two hard disks in my box aren't being mounted on startup, and I can't mount them at all while in Xwin. I get a few messages while booting, which are shown below. I don't undertand why they cannot be mounted. I enabled FAT and VFAT support before compiling the kernel.

Second, modprobe can't find my USB interface. What do I need to enable before I compile my kernel so I can use USB?

Third, modprobe can't find my soundcard: Soundblaster Live! (emu10k1). However, my sound DOES work! I suspect that I just have to remove the line that refers to the emu10k1 in my modules.conf file? I think the module for the sound is hardcoded into the kernel. Not sure about that though.

Below is my boot.log file for my last boot (all lines marked with ** are the problems I am addressing):

Aug 17 17:26:58 macdaddy syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
Aug 17 17:26:58 macdaddy syslog: klogd startup succeeded
Aug 17 17:26:58 macdaddy nfslock: rpc.statd startup succeeded
Aug 17 17:26:58 macdaddy random: Initializing random number generator: succeeded
**Aug 17 17:26:59 macdaddy mount: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
**Aug 17 17:26:59 macdaddy mount: or too many mounted file systems
**Aug 17 17:26:59 macdaddy mount: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb1,
**Aug 17 17:26:59 macdaddy mount: or too many mounted file systems
**Aug 17 17:26:59 macdaddy netfs: Mounting other filesystems: failed
Aug 17 17:26:59 macdaddy atd: atd startup succeeded
Aug 17 17:26:36 macdaddy rc.sysinit: Mounting proc filesystem succeeded
Aug 17 17:26:36 macdaddy rc.sysinit: Setting default font succeeded
Aug 17 17:26:36 macdaddy rc.sysinit: Configuring kernel parameters: succeeded
Aug 17 17:26:36 macdaddy date: Fri Aug 17 17:26:36 UTC 2001
Aug 17 17:26:36 macdaddy rc.sysinit: Setting clock (localtime): Fri Aug 17 17:26:36 UTC 2001 succeeded
Aug 17 17:26:36 macdaddy rc.sysinit: Loading default keymap succeeded
Aug 17 17:26:36 macdaddy rc.sysinit: Activating swap partitions: succeeded
Aug 17 17:26:36 macdaddy rc.sysinit: Setting hostname macdaddy.macclan.fam: succeeded
Aug 17 17:26:36 macdaddy fsck: /dev/hda7: clean, 119741/784896 files, 637371/1568692 blocks
Aug 17 17:26:36 macdaddy rc.sysinit: Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode: succeeded
Aug 17 17:26:37 macdaddy rc.sysinit: Finding module dependencies: succeeded
Aug 17 17:26:37 macdaddy fsck: /dev/hda5: clean, 42/5664 files, 4409/22648 blocks
**Aug 17 17:26:37 macdaddy mount: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
**Aug 17 17:26:37 macdaddy mount: or too many mounted file systems
**Aug 17 17:26:37 macdaddy mount: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb1,
**Aug 17 17:26:37 macdaddy mount: or too many mounted file systems
**Aug 17 17:26:37 macdaddy rc.sysinit: Mounting local filesystems: failed
**Aug 17 17:26:37 macdaddy mount: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
**Aug 17 17:26:37 macdaddy mount: or too many mounted file systems
**Aug 17 17:26:37 macdaddy mount: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb1,
**Aug 17 17:26:37 macdaddy mount: or too many mounted file systems
**Aug 17 17:26:37 macdaddy rc.sysinit: Mounting loopback filesystems: failed
Aug 17 17:26:38 macdaddy loadkeys: Loading /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/us.kmap.gz
Aug 17 17:26:38 macdaddy keytable: Loading keymap: us succeeded
Aug 17 17:26:38 macdaddy loadkeys: Loading /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/include/compose.latin1.inc.gz
Aug 17 17:26:38 macdaddy keytable: Loading compose keys: compose.latin1.inc succeeded
Aug 17 17:26:38 macdaddy keytable: succeeded
Aug 17 17:26:38 macdaddy rc.sysinit: Turning on user and group quotas for local filesystems: succeeded
Aug 17 17:26:39 macdaddy rc.sysinit: Enabling swap space: succeeded
Aug 17 17:26:41 macdaddy mandrake_everytime: Building Window Manager Sessions succeeded
**Aug 17 17:26:42 macdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module usb-interface
Aug 17 17:26:42 macdaddy usb: Loading USB interface failed
Aug 17 17:26:43 macdaddy harddrake: succeeded
Aug 17 17:26:56 macdaddy kudzu: succeeded
Aug 17 17:26:56 macdaddy network: Setting network parameters: succeeded
Aug 17 17:26:57 macdaddy network: Bringing up interface lo: succeeded
Aug 17 17:26:57 macdaddy network: Bringing up interface eth0: succeeded
Aug 17 17:26:57 macdaddy portmap: portmap startup succeeded
Aug 17 17:27:02 macdaddy xinetd: xinetd startup succeeded
Aug 17 17:27:03 macdaddy cups: cupsd startup succeeded
**Aug 17 17:27:03 macdaddy modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module emu10k1
Aug 17 17:27:03 macdaddy sound: Loading sound module (emu10k1) failed
Aug 17 17:27:03 macdaddy loadkeys: Loading /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/us.kmap.gz
Aug 17 17:27:04 macdaddy keytable: Loading keymap: us succeeded
Aug 17 17:27:04 macdaddy loadkeys: Loading /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/include/compose.latin1.inc.gz
Aug 17 17:27:04 macdaddy keytable: Loading compose keys: compose.latin1.inc succeeded
Aug 17 17:27:04 macdaddy keytable: succeeded
Aug 17 17:27:04 macdaddy lvs: IPv4 packet forwarding disabled failed
Aug 17 17:27:04 macdaddy postfix: Starting postfix:
Aug 17 17:27:07 macdaddy postfix: postfix
Aug 17 17:27:07 macdaddy rc: Starting postfix: succeeded
Aug 17 17:27:07 macdaddy numlock: Starting numlock: ^[[60G[ ^[[1;32m
Aug 17 17:27:07 macdaddy numlock:
Aug 17 17:27:08 macdaddy rc: Starting numlock: succeeded
Aug 17 17:27:08 macdaddy crond: crond startup succeeded
Aug 17 17:27:09 macdaddy start: Starting Webmin server in /usr/share/webmin
Aug 17 17:27:09 macdaddy webmin: Starting Webmin succeeded
Aug 17 17:27:10 macdaddy xfs: xfs startup succeeded
Aug 17 17:27:12 macdaddy smb: smbd startup succeeded
Aug 17 17:27:13 macdaddy smb: nmbd startup succeeded
Aug 17 17:27:14 macdaddy anacron: anacron startup succeeded
Aug 17 17:27:15 macdaddy rc: Starting kheader: succeeded
Aug 17 17:27:17 macdaddy netconf: Checking kernel configuration
Aug 17 17:27:17 macdaddy linuxconf: Running Linuxconf hooks: succeeded
Aug 17 17:27:18 macdaddy medusa-init: medusa-indexd startup succeeded
Aug 17 17:27:18 macdaddy medusa-searchd: Ready to receive queries
Aug 17 17:27:18 macdaddy medusa-init: medusa-searchd startup succeeded


Any help on this would be appreciated. Thanks!

-Gordon

well, all i know for sure is that if the sound is working then it is best to leave it alone. it is most probable that the kernel has the sound driver compiled in and then modprobe is told in the start-up scripts to try and load the sound driver (which isn;t there coz you didn;t compile it in). if you really care you can remove it's mention in modules.conf (or conf.modules). im not sure if that will do it coz i use slackware. in my distro you just alter one of the start up scripts.

the hard disk problem might be due to a bad fstab file. try posting the /est/fstab file here just so people can check to see if it is messed up.

that usb problem i have no idea about coz i can never be bothered to try my usb stuff ( i only have a really crud scanner). have you RTM ? it might have some insight . all i know is that there are atleast two options in the kernel compilation that need to be turned on.

Alex

Kernel 2.4.9 has not yet been released. 2.4.8 is the current version. To get the USB working you need to make sure that the correct options are set. use Make xconfig to do this. It can be trial and error but I have done this. A fast machine is a good idea.

Thanks for the replies guys. However, I just fixed it lastnight. What I did was use the config file from my pervious kernel and used that for xconfig and voila! All fixed! Thanks again.

-Gordon