On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 08:00:34AM -0800, Brad Boyer wrote: > On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 02:55:10PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 11:38:55PM +0800, Tomasz Grzegurzko wrote: > > > I've been trying to coax the floppy images from > > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/floppy/ > > > (where daily = 25/2/2006) to boot on a 7200/75 I've picked up. The > > > system boots of the disks fine, which many of the earlier revisions of > > > the images do not (the ones pointed to by the debian documentation only > > > contain seemingly empty disk images, weird). Other times, I've inserted > > > the boot disk and after loading it up the screen blanks and will not > > > switch back on. However, my issue with the daily set from above is the > > > floppy module. It seems that the module "floppy" will not load either > > > from the installer or via a modprobe. > > > > > > # depmod -a > > > # modprobe floppy > > > FATAL: Error inserting floppy > > > (/lib/modules/2.6.15-1-powerpc-miboot/kernel/drivers/block/floppy.ko): > > > Device or resource busy > > > # dmesg | tail > > > register_blkdev: cannot get major 2 for fd > > > > Ok, we need to investigate this, i am at fosdem, where i picked up a prep > > box > > and another oldworld, and will be back home only wednesday and probably not > > have time until next WE, but i will definitively try a run of those. > > This problem seems pretty simple. The driver floppy.ko is for normal PC > style floppy controllers. Apple never did use such a beast in a Mac. The > swim3 driver should handle the floppy drives for all PCI Macs that have > internal floppy drives. You might check to see if it is already loaded, > since the floppy.ko driver said that something else was already using > block major 2.
so, this would be a d-i bug which tries to load the floppy.ko on oldworld pmacs, right ? Need to look into this nextly. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
