If I remove the floppy and replace it with a battery or cdrw, the system freezes during bootup, right at the mounting section. This is with supermount, it will work fine without it.
--- Guillaume Cottenceau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > SI Reasoning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Maybe supermount should be an option instead of > the > > default. Laptops with removeable modules, in > > particular, removable floppy , can lock up during > boot > > when the floppy is not installed (if it has > already > > been setup in supermount). I have not run into > > problems with 2nd cdroms (like cdrw) because the > > system checks for the different drives. Evidently > > there is no checking for the floppy though (at > least > > on my laptop) which leads to the situation where > > supermount tries to mount an unavaiable floppy and > the > > system freezes at that point. > > Well the kernel should not freeze. Is it the same > without > supermount, when you try to mount the floppy > "traditionally" ? > > > -- > Guillaume Cottenceau - > http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/ > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com
