Still no luck. I have floppy compiled into the kernel. Everything else looks OK, but looking in /dev I see fb/ fd/ and full/
Under SuSE /dev I see many fd* including fd0, and it mounts and accesses my floppy just fine. So I am llost/ BR Bruce On Monday 29 December 2003 07:58 am, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > 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 -- Best Regards, Bruce "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety". Benjamin Franklin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
