Hello,
I try all the suggested tricks I got to the point where the floppy is mounted on boot up every time, if I look under the computer icon the floppy icon is there by double click it access the floppy the message appears "unable to mount location, no media in the drive". Almost there. any suggestion?
by the way the diskette is a good working DOS working diskette.
I am using FC14.

how do ask a question or post a new thread?

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Hello vonelli,

first thing, check if the kernel is configured for floppy-disk-support. It's in "Device-Drivers"->"Block-Devices" the first point.

Then check if your kernel supports the old fat16 filesystem of DOS.

Markus

Hello kenholtmeyer,

it is rude behavior in this forum to hijack other people's threads!
It is as well rude behavior to kick other people's threads from the zero reply list!
And it is rude behavior to post unrelated rubbish to other people's threads!

Please read the forum-rules: http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/rules.html

Markus

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http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...aq#faq_newpost

Kind regards

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Fedora and other distro's may have ways to select user rights. See that and add in I think they call it removable media as a right to that user. It will then mount the floppy by insertion.

Well, yet I remember I'm in the group "floppy" on my system (although I don't have such a drive), maybe it would work to add the user to the group floppy.

Markus

vonelli ,HOW did you
if you used fstab that will not work !

the kernel no longer looks to see if there is a floppy drive any more
3,5 disks are no longer even manufactured
3.5 disk drives are no longer even manufactured
3.5 disk drives are not installed into new computers

so the kernel dose not even look for them any more at boot .

YOU need to set the modprob to look for it

On my old ( 2001 DELL ) I manually set it if i need in on ScientificLinux 6.1
and if needed
"mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy "

I did both, when I double click on the floppy icon the floppy drive led light up and try to access the diskette, but it thinks that is not mounted.
It is true that the floppy are faced out but for the moment I have a big collection of them filled with data and blank, what am I to do, go to windows every time I need to use the the floppy?

@vonelli: did you check that your kernel supports fat16 as I wrote above? If the filesystem isn't supported by the kernel, mount will not work.

Markus

" I did both, "
then what is the fstab line
you might need to be root to use the floppy

I don't know how to check it, I look search for "Device-Drivers" and "Block-Devices" they do not exist. I will appreciate if I can get a detailed direction on how to. thank you Vinny

Please append your .config from your kernelsources to your post.

You may as well check by yourself for
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD (floppysupport) and CONFIG_VFAT_FS (for the FAT filesystem).
note that the -i option means "not case sensitive", it is necessary.

Markus

There is "BLK_DEV_FD and VFAT_FS" in this file but grep does not return any thing.

# CONFIG_CACHEFILES_HISTOGRAM is not set

#
# CD-ROM/DVD Filesystems
#
CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y
CONFIG_JOLIET=y
CONFIG_ZISOFS=y
CONFIG_UDF_FS=m
CONFIG_UDF_NLS=y

#
# DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems
#
CONFIG_FAT_FS=m
CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=m
CONFIG_VFAT_FS=m
CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE=437
CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET="ascii"
# CONFIG_NTFS_FS is not set

#
# Pseudo filesystems
#
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_PROC_KCORE=y
CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE=y
CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL=y
CONFIG_PROC_PAGE_MONITOR=y
CONFIG_SYSFS=y
CONFIG_TMPFS=y
CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL=y
CONFIG_HUGETLBFS=y
CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE=y
CONFIG_CONFIGFS_FS=m
CONFIG_MISC_FILESYSTEMS=y
# CONFIG_ADFS_FS is not set
CONFIG_AFFS_FS=m
CONFIG_ECRYPT_FS=m
CONFIG_HFS_FS=m
CONFIG_HFSPLUS_FS=m
CONFIG_BEFS_FS=m
# CONFIG_BEFS_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_BFS_FS=m
CONFIG_EFS_FS=m
CONFIG_JFFS2_FS=m
CONFIG_JFFS2_FS_DEBUG=0
CONFIG_JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER=y
# CONFIG_JFFS2_FS_WBUF_VERIFY is not set
CONFIG_JFFS2_SUMMARY=y
CONFIG_JFFS2_FS_XATTR=y
CONFIG_JFFS2_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
CONFIG_JFFS2_FS_SECURITY=y
# CONFIG_JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS is not set
CONFIG_JFFS2_ZLIB=y
# CONFIG_JFFS2_LZO is not set
CONFIG_JFFS2_RTIME=y
# CONFIG_JFFS2_RUBIN is not set
CONFIG_UBIFS_FS=m
CONFIG_UBIFS_FS_XATTR=y
# CONFIG_UBIFS_FS_ADVANCED_COMPR is not set
CONFIG_UBIFS_FS_LZO=y
CONFIG_UBIFS_FS_ZLIB=y
# CONFIG_UBIFS_FS_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_LOGFS=m
CONFIG_CRAMFS=m
CONFIG_SQUASHFS=m
CONFIG_SQUASHFS_XATTRS=y
# CONFIG_SQUASHFS_EMBEDDED is not set
CONFIG_SQUASHFS_FRAGMENT_CACHE_SIZE=3
CONFIG_VXFS_FS=m
CONFIG_MINIX_FS=m
CONFIG_OMFS_FS=m
# CONFIG_HPFS_FS is not set
CONFIG_QNX4FS_FS=m
CONFIG_ROMFS_FS=m
CONFIG_ROMFS_BACKED_BY_BLOCK=y
# CONFIG_ROMFS_BACKED_BY_MTD is not set
# CONFIG_ROMFS_BACKED_BY_BOTH is not set
CONFIG_ROMFS_ON_BLOCK=y
CONFIG_SYSV_FS=m
CONFIG_UFS_FS=m
# CONFIG_UFS_FS_WRITE is not set
# CONFIG_UFS_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_EXOFS_FS=m
# CONFIG_EXOFS_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS=y
CONFIG_NFS_FS=m
CONFIG_NFS_V3=y
CONFIG_NFS_V3_ACL=y
CONFIG_NFS_V4=y
CONFIG_NFS_V4_1=y
CONFIG_NFS_FSCACHE=y
CONFIG_NFSD=m
CONFIG_NFSD_V2_ACL=y
CONFIG_NFSD_V3=y
CONFIG_NFSD_V3_ACL=y
CONFIG_NFSD_V4=y
CONFIG_LOCKD=m
CONFIG_LOCKD_V4=y
CONFIG_EXPORTFS=m
CONFIG_NFS_ACL_SUPPORT=m
CONFIG_NFS_COMMON=y
CONFIG_SUNRPC=m
CONFIG_SUNRPC_GSS=m
CONFIG_SUNRPC_XPRT_RDMA=m
CONFIG_RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5=m
CONFIG_RPCSEC_GSS_SPKM3=m
# CONFIG_SMB_FS is not set
CONFIG_CEPH_FS=m
# CONFIG_CEPH_FS_PRETTYDEBUG is not set
CONFIG_CIFS=m
CONFIG_CIFS_STATS=y
# CONFIG_CIFS_STATS2 is not set
CONFIG_CIFS_WEAK_PW_HASH=y
CONFIG_CIFS_UPCALL=y
CONFIG_CIFS_XATTR=y
CONFIG_CIFS_POSIX=y
# CONFIG_CIFS_DEBUG2 is not set
CONFIG_CIFS_DFS_UPCALL=y
CONFIG_CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL=y
CONFIG_NCP_FS=m
CONFIG_NCPFS_PACKET_SIGNING=y
CONFIG_NCPFS_IOCTL_LOCKING=y
CONFIG_NCPFS_STRONG=y
CONFIG_NCPFS_NFS_NS=y
CONFIG_NCPFS_OS2_NS=y
CONFIG_NCPFS_SMALLDOS=y
CONFIG_NCPFS_NLS=y
CONFIG_NCPFS_EXTRAS=y
CONFIG_CODA_FS=m
# CONFIG_AFS_FS is not set
CONFIG_9P_FS=m
CONFIG_9P_FSCACHE=y

#
# Partition Types
#
CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED=y
# CONFIG_ACORN_PARTITION is not set
CONFIG_OSF_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_AMIGA_PARTITION=y
# CONFIG_ATARI_PARTITION is not set
CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_BSD_DISKLABEL=y
CONFIG_MINIX_SUBPARTITION=y
CONFIG_SOLARIS_X86_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_UNIXWARE_DISKLABEL=y
# CONFIG_LDM_PARTITION is not set
CONFIG_SGI_PARTITION=y
# CONFIG_ULTRIX_PARTITION is not set
CONFIG_SUN_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_KARMA_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION=y
# CONFIG_SYSV68_PARTITION is not set
CONFIG_NLS=y
CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT="utf8"
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=y
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_737=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_775=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_850=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_852=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_855=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_857=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_860=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_861=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_862=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_863=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_864=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_865=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_866=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_869=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_936=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_950=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_932=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_949=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_874=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_8=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_1250=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_1251=m
CONFIG_NLS_ASCII=y
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_2=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_3=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_4=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_5=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_6=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_7=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_9=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_13=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_14=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_15=m
CONFIG_NLS_KOI8_R=m
CONFIG_NLS_KOI8_U=m
CONFIG_NLS_UTF8=m
CONFIG_DLM=m
CONFIG_DLM_DEBUG=y

#
# Kernel hacking
#
CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME=y
# CONFIG_ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED is not set
CONFIG_ENABLE_MUST_CHECK=y
CONFIG_FRAME_WARN=1024
CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y
CONFIG_STRIP_ASM_SYMS=y
CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_FS=y
CONFIG_HEADERS_CHECK=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_SHIRQ=y
CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP=y
# CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC is not set
CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE=0
# CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK is not set
CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y
CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_NMI_TIMEOUT=5
CONFIG_TIMER_STATS=y
# CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS is not set
# CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON is not set
# CONFIG_SLUB_STATS is not set
# CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK is not set
# CONFIG_DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES is not set
# CONFIG_RT_MUTEX_TESTER is not set
# CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK is not set
# CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES is not set
# CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC is not set
# CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING is not set
# CONFIG_LOCK_STAT is not set
CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP=y
# CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS is not set
CONFIG_STACKTRACE=y
# CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT is not set
CONFIG_DEBUG_HIGHMEM=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y
# CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is not set
# CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL is not set
# CONFIG_DEBUG_WRITECOUNT is not set
CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST=y
# CONFIG_DEBUG_SG is not set
# CONFIG_DEBUG_NOTIFIERS is not set
# CONFIG_DEBUG_CREDENTIALS is not set
CONFIG_ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS=y
CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=y
CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY=y
# CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST is not set
# CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR is not set
# CONFIG_KPROBES_SANITY_TEST is not set
# CONFIG_BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST is not set
# CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT is not set
# CONFIG_DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU is not set
# CONFIG_LKDTM is not set
# CONFIG_CPU_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT is not set
# CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION is not set
CONFIG_LATENCYTOP=y
# CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL_CHECK is not set
# CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is not set
CONFIG_USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_NOP_TRACER=y
CONFIG_HAVE_FTRACE_NMI_ENTER=y
CONFIG_HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER=y
CONFIG_HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER=y
CONFIG_HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FP_TEST=y
CONFIG_HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST=y
CONFIG_HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE=y
CONFIG_HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD=y
CONFIG_HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS=y
CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE=y
CONFIG_RING_BUFFER=y
CONFIG_FTRACE_NMI_ENTER=y
CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING=y
CONFIG_CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER=y
CONFIG_RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP=y
CONFIG_TRACING=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_TRACER=y
CONFIG_TRACING_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_FTRACE=y
CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER=y
# CONFIG_IRQSOFF_TRACER is not set
CONFIG_SYSPROF_TRACER=y
CONFIG_SCHED_TRACER=y
CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS=y
# CONFIG_BOOT_TRACER is not set
CONFIG_BRANCH_PROFILE_NONE=y
# CONFIG_PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES is not set
# CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES is not set
CONFIG_KSYM_TRACER=y
CONFIG_PROFILE_KSYM_TRACER=y
CONFIG_STACK_TRACER=y
CONFIG_KMEMTRACE=y
CONFIG_WORKQUEUE_TRACER=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE=y
CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENT=y
CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE=y
CONFIG_FUNCTION_PROFILER=y
CONFIG_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD=y
# CONFIG_FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST is not set
# CONFIG_MMIOTRACE is not set
CONFIG_RING_BUFFER_BENCHMARK=m
# CONFIG_PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT is not set
# CONFIG_FIREWIRE_OHCI_REMOTE_DMA is not set
CONFIG_BUILD_DOCSRC=y
CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG=y
# CONFIG_DMA_API_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_ATOMIC64_SELFTEST=y
# CONFIG_SAMPLES is not set
CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_KGDB=y
CONFIG_KGDB=y
CONFIG_KGDB_SERIAL_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_KGDB_TESTS=y
# CONFIG_KGDB_TESTS_ON_BOOT is not set
CONFIG_KGDB_LOW_LEVEL_TRAP=y
CONFIG_KGDB_KDB=y
CONFIG_KDB_KEYBOARD=y
CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_KMEMCHECK=y
CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM=y
# CONFIG_X86_VERBOSE_BOOTUP is not set
CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK=y
CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK_DBGP=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW=y
# CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE is not set
# CONFIG_DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS is not set
# CONFIG_X86_PTDUMP is not set
CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA_TEST=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_NX_TEST=m
# CONFIG_4KSTACKS is not set
CONFIG_DOUBLEFAULT=y
# CONFIG_IOMMU_STRESS is not set
CONFIG_HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_X86_DECODER_SELFTEST=y
CONFIG_IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80=0
CONFIG_IO_DELAY_TYPE_0XED=1
CONFIG_IO_DELAY_TYPE_UDELAY=2
CONFIG_IO_DELAY_TYPE_NONE=3
CONFIG_IO_DELAY_0X80=y
# CONFIG_IO_DELAY_0XED is not set
# CONFIG_IO_DELAY_UDELAY is not set
# CONFIG_IO_DELAY_NONE is not set
CONFIG_DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE=0
CONFIG_DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS=y
# CONFIG_CPA_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING=y
# CONFIG_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS is not set

#
# Security options
#
CONFIG_KEYS=y
CONFIG_KEYS_DEBUG_PROC_KEYS=y
CONFIG_SECURITY=y
CONFIG_SECURITYFS=y
CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK=y
CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK_XFRM=y
# CONFIG_SECURITY_PATH is not set
# CONFIG_INTEL_TXT is not set
CONFIG_LSM_MMAP_MIN_ADDR=65536
CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX=y
CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_BOOTPARAM=y
CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_BOOTPARAM_VALUE=1
CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_DISABLE=y
CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_DEVELOP=y
CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_AVC_STATS=y
CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_CHECKREQPROT_VALUE=1
# CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_POLICYDB_VERSION_MAX is not set
# CONFIG_SECURITY_SMACK is not set
# CONFIG_SECURITY_TOMOYO is not set
CONFIG_IMA=y
CONFIG_IMA_MEASURE_PCR_IDX=10
CONFIG_IMA_AUDIT=y
CONFIG_IMA_LSM_RULES=y
CONFIG_DEFAULT_SECURITY_SELINUX=y
# CONFIG_DEFAULT_SECURITY_SMACK is not set
# CONFIG_DEFAULT_SECURITY_TOMOYO is not set
# CONFIG_DEFAULT_SECURITY_DAC is not set
CONFIG_DEFAULT_SECURITY="selinux"
CONFIG_XOR_BLOCKS=m
CONFIG_ASYNC_CORE=m
CONFIG_ASYNC_MEMCPY=m
CONFIG_ASYNC_XOR=m
CONFIG_ASYNC_PQ=m
CONFIG_ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV=m
CONFIG_ASYNC_TX_DISABLE_PQ_VAL_DMA=y
CONFIG_ASYNC_TX_DISABLE_XOR_VAL_DMA=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO=y

#
# Crypto core or helper
#
CONFIG_CRYPTO_FIPS=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_ALGAPI=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_ALGAPI2=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_AEAD=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_AEAD2=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_BLKCIPHER=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_BLKCIPHER2=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_HASH=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_HASH2=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_RNG=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_RNG2=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_PCOMP=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_MANAGER=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_MANAGER2=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_MANAGER_TESTS=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_GF128MUL=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_NULL=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_PCRYPT=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_WORKQUEUE=y
# CONFIG_CRYPTO_CRYPTD is not set
CONFIG_CRYPTO_AUTHENC=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_TEST=m

#
# Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data
#
CONFIG_CRYPTO_CCM=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_GCM=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_SEQIV=m

#
# Block modes
#
CONFIG_CRYPTO_CBC=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_CTR=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_CTS=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_ECB=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_LRW=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_PCBC=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_XTS=m

#
# Hash modes
#
CONFIG_CRYPTO_HMAC=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_XCBC=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_VMAC=m

#
# Digest
#
CONFIG_CRYPTO_CRC32C=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_CRC32C_INTEL=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_GHASH=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_MD4=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_MD5=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_MICHAEL_MIC=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_RMD128=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_RMD160=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_RMD256=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_RMD320=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA1=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA256=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA512=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_TGR192=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_WP512=m

#
# Ciphers
#
CONFIG_CRYPTO_AES=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_AES_586=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_ANUBIS=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_ARC4=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_BLOWFISH=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_CAMELLIA=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_CAST5=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_CAST6=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_DES=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_FCRYPT=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_KHAZAD=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_SALSA20=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_SALSA20_586=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_SEED=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_SERPENT=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_TEA=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_TWOFISH=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_TWOFISH_COMMON=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_TWOFISH_586=m

#
# Compression
#
CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEFLATE=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_ZLIB=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_LZO=m

#
# Random Number Generation
#
CONFIG_CRYPTO_ANSI_CPRNG=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_HW=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_PADLOCK=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_PADLOCK_AES=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_PADLOCK_SHA=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_GEODE=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_HIFN_795X=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_HIFN_795X_RNG=y
CONFIG_HAVE_KVM=y
CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQCHIP=y
CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_EVENTFD=y
CONFIG_KVM_APIC_ARCHITECTURE=y
CONFIG_KVM_MMIO=y
CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION=y
CONFIG_KVM=m
CONFIG_KVM_INTEL=m
CONFIG_KVM_AMD=m
CONFIG_VHOST_NET=m
CONFIG_LGUEST=m
CONFIG_VIRTIO=y
CONFIG_VIRTIO_RING=y
CONFIG_VIRTIO_PCI=m
CONFIG_VIRTIO_BALLOON=m
CONFIG_BINARY_PRINTF=y

#
# Library routines
#
CONFIG_BITREVERSE=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_NEXT_BIT=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_LAST_BIT=y
CONFIG_CRC_CCITT=m
CONFIG_CRC16=y
CONFIG_CRC_T10DIF=y
CONFIG_CRC_ITU_T=m
CONFIG_CRC32=y
CONFIG_CRC7=m
CONFIG_LIBCRC32C=m
CONFIG_AUDIT_GENERIC=y
CONFIG_ZLIB_INFLATE=y
CONFIG_ZLIB_DEFLATE=m
CONFIG_LZO_COMPRESS=m
CONFIG_LZO_DECOMPRESS=y
CONFIG_DECOMPRESS_GZIP=y
CONFIG_DECOMPRESS_BZIP2=y
CONFIG_DECOMPRESS_LZMA=y
CONFIG_DECOMPRESS_LZO=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_ALLOCATOR=y
CONFIG_REED_SOLOMON=m
CONFIG_REED_SOLOMON_DEC16=y
CONFIG_TEXTSEARCH=y
CONFIG_TEXTSEARCH_KMP=m
CONFIG_TEXTSEARCH_BM=m
CONFIG_TEXTSEARCH_FSM=m
CONFIG_BTREE=y
CONFIG_HAS_IOMEM=y
CONFIG_HAS_IOPORT=y
CONFIG_HAS_DMA=y
CONFIG_CHECK_SIGNATURE=y
CONFIG_NLATTR=y
CONFIG_LRU_CACHE=m
# CONFIG_PCI_DEFAULT_USE_CRS is not set

Well, the kernel supports the filesystem, it is compiled as a module.

But it is still not clear if BLK_DEV_FD is configured. If you found it, could you please post the whole line from the .config file?

Markus