On Wed, 6 Jan 2016, Shawn H Corey wrote: > On Wed, 6 Jan 2016 16:39:20 -0500 (EST) > "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday [ at ] crashcourse [ dot ] ca> wrote: > > > so what's the secret? > > Usually, I use `gparted`. It's a graphical disk partitioner and > formatter. Downloadable as a package in most distros. > > http://gparted.org/ apparently, there's something more subtle going on. i'm using a hand-rolled kernel of my own, using fedora's .config as a starting point. and that's the one that's failing mysteriously. i reboot to the official fedora kernel, and everything is cool. but i have no idea why. all the appropriate loadable modules are there, i've configured in support for all MS filesystem types, etc. something weird happening here. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================