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Re: Can't mount using usb-storage after kernel upgrade



On 2005-04-21, Andrew Perrin penned:
>
> Follow-up: the problem was that there was no nls language module
> available to load the vfat filesystem. Compiling and loading the
> nls_iso8859_1 and nls_cp437 modules solved the problem.
>
> This seems like a bug to me: if vfat requires these modules,
> make-kpkg ought to keep one from compiling a kernel that includes
> vfat but not the required modules, or at least ought to warn about
> it.

I ran into this one as well, upgrading from 2.4.24 to 2.6.10.  Same
solution, although iirc I got a different error message when I tried
to mount the drive.

Seems like a bug to me, too.

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