On Wed, 6 Jan 2016, James wrote: > > > On 2016-01-06 05:06 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > 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 > What is the error? > So it boots if you put the official kernel on the USB? > Maybe you have something as a module that needs to be compiled in. the failure is simply a failure to automount the NTFS filesystem on the USB drive on insertion. i configured and built my new kernel based off of the standard RH kernel and config file, and i tried as much as possible to incorporate every feature and loadable module in the original, but auto-mounting under the new kernel doesn't work. if i return to the official RH fedora kernel, no problem. i *seem* to have all the proper modules selected and built and ready to go. it's just a little puzzling and i'm going to keep poking around. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================