On Sunday 28 December 2003 23:04, Bruce E. Harris wrote:
> ok, this one have me at a loss. I am trying to access my floppy via
> Gentoo and having no luck. I tried to create a floppyfw and coyote floppy
> and it could not access /dev/fd0. Looking in at /dev I see fd/ but not
> fd0. I added /dev/fd0 to my etc/fstab but no change. I cant not mount my
> floppy either. I had to boot into SuSE to create the floppyfw and edit it
> but rather stay in Gentoo.
>
> Any ideas?
Did you compile floppy support in your kernel configuration as module?
If so, you probably forgot to load the floppy-module...
So:
1) Check if your kernel has floppy support at all, either modular or
directly built in.
2) Make sure the kernel finds the floppy. When including floppy support
directly (i.e. not as module), you should look at the boot messages if it
finds the floppy. If compiled as module, there should come some message
when inserting the floppy-module. See the kernel boot messages with dmesg.
3) Make sure your /etc/modules.devfs contains the lines
# Floppies
alias /dev/floppy floppy
alias /dev/fd* floppy
If you never changed this file, its probably ok.
Greetings,
Alex
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