On ���, 2001-12-15 at 03:13, SI Reasoning wrote: > I have a Dell Inspiron 8000 laptop. It has 2 modular > bays in front. I recently bought a modular cdrw and > powered down the device, then removed the floppy and > put it in that modular bay. When I rebooted the system > locked up trying to mount a vfat directory (the floppy > drive). To get it to work, I had to # the floppy drive > statement in fstab. > > Is this something that can be solved by devfs? If > devfs does not find the drive then it does not try and > mount it through fstab.... or maybe rebuild > removeables (such as floppy, cdroms, etc) each reboot? > > How else can this problem be resolved? >
What problem? What is in your fstab? What is your system version? What is your boot string? Do you run aurora? What is in dmesg? Do you use supermount?
