Am Monday 15 December 2003 19:07 schrieb ext john gennard: > I meant /fd0 exists in /dev directory as does about a couple of > dozen of varieties (eg /fd0u1440). > It shows 'brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2 etc'.
That means you have the device file, and from that I guess you're not using
devfs, right? If you where using devfs, you would have /dev/floppy/0*
(and /dev/fd0* would be symlinks to those). And this only if the driver is
active (compiled in or module loaded). Do you see the floppy driver print
some version info at boot time (or with dmesg).
> /dev/fd1 also exists, but I never have more than one floppy.
Seems you're using a static /dev, no devfs. In this case, the /dev files are
allways there, no matter if the corresponding driver is active or not.
> Modprobe does nothing other than give out an error message 'can't
> open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.21-gss/modules.dep - no
> such file or directory'. I'm not surprised as the kernel
> compiled by genkernel was '2.4.20-gentoo-r6' which is what
> /lib/modules has. By the way, there is no file /etc/modules.conf -
> is this a Gentoo thing?
But the one that is running 2.4.21-gss? And ther are no modules for that
kernel installed in /lib/modules?
> May be I should go back and manually compile a kernel - I've normally
> no problem in doing that and I generally include everything I need,
> leaving only three modules.
Hmm, maybe the best thing to do. Anyway, I wonder why you would want to boot
from floppy?
HTH...
Dirk
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