Kernel compiled from source won't read /parts/ of a CD?
This is one of the strangest situations I have ever seen: my re-compiled Linux 2.4.18 kernel now /refuses/ to read /only/ the "/Mandrake" directory branch of all three of the Mandrake distribution CDs. It /has/ to be some kernel option, but I can't figure which one; any advice or debugging hints at all are greatly appreciated.
I had to recompile a Mandrake 8.2 kernel to remove pcmcia support (so I could use the sf release of it) Using the stock Mandrake 8.2 binary kernel, the CDs can be read just fine, it is only the kernel that I compiled from the linux-2.4.18-6mdk.src package that has this trouble. There are no warning messages, only one line returned to the console to say "ls /Mandrake: Invalid argument" and one line in syslog to say "ISO 9660: RRIP_1991A" and that's the total diagnostic information I have.
Using /usr/bin/isoinfo, I can list the CD contents just fine; all the unix tools (ls, cd, cp ...) and rpm cannot read /Mandrake.
What could I have possibly omitted from the kernel config to cause this? How could that one directory be singled out by a simple kernel config problem? (or could it be a gcc 2.96 problem?)
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