"Jay \"Boogieman\" Edwards" <boogie350@NOSPAMyahoo.com> writes:

> 1 - I can't mount my FAT32 partitions, gives "no VFAT support in kernel"
> error. I specifically remember making sure all FAT-related filesystem
> options were enabled (not modules) when I configged...

The most common reason for this (in gentoo) seems to be that the user
is not running the kernel he thought he was running.

The reason usually is that his /boot partition is not mounted when
installing the newly compiled kernel, so the new kernel goes into
the /boot directory of the root partition by mistake. The result
is the old kernel is booted next time around.