Bugs item #1041845, was opened at 2004-10-06 15:18
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Category: Autoinstall Kernel
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: dann frazier (dannf)
Summary: lilo can't see /dev/fd0 until it is mounted

Initial Comment:
This problem effects both boel and the old RH 7.3 install
I'm about to replace on our beowulf nodes.  The problem is
this, if the lilo.conf file includes:

other=/dev/fd0
        label=floppy

then when lilo is run after systemconfigurator (which
defaults to running GRUB) it generates an error:

  fatal: open /dev/fd0: No such device or address

This isn't because systemconfigurator ran, editing that
out of the script and just running lilo does the same
thing.
In RH 7.3 the only way around this that I've yet found
is to put a floppy in the drive, and do:

  mount /mnt/floppy

and then lilo is happy.  Using modprobe to load all
the modules that are loaded at the above mount (but
not doing the actual mount) doesn't help.

I've also tried putting

  nobiospnp
  devfs=mount

in the "append" section for boel (and  RH 7.3) and
lilo still wasn't happy.

This isn't super important because I can get the same
result
by messing with the boot order in the BIOS, but I would
like to understand it.

If it matters, this is a Tyan S2466 motherboard.

Thanks,

David Mathog
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