block-major-33

Hi,

I'm not sure if I found the right group to place my request, so pls apologize for any inconvenience.

I'm busy porting 2.4.17 and .18 to a MIPS 32 board.
There is a PCMCIA slot and I want to access a CompactFlash Card in a belonging "CF to PCMCIA" adapter.
Hotplugging of the Card seems to work as I get belonging messages.

Then I try to mount the CF Card (which is VFAT and VFAT is in my kernel) with

mount -t vfat /dev/hdxx /mnt

The response is then:

kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-33, errno = 2
mount: /dev/hde is not a valid block device

I don't have modprobe in my root filesystem and during testing I want to work just with in-kernel-compiled modules and not loadable modules.

So it seems that I missed to compile the belonging modules for hda/hdb hdc/hdd hde/hdf into my kernel.
I've tried already some options but didn't found out a correct setting. Is there any essential module which has to be activated?
As far as I've seen there are for the above named devices the block-major 3, 22 and 33 responsible.
Do they correspond to any specific kernel config setting?

If I remove the "loadable-modules" option from the kernel I just get the message:
mount: /dev/hdx is not a valid block device

kind regards

Tiemo

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