Re: [suse-sparc] Floppy: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device

From: Thomas Weiler (thweiler@informatik.rwth-aachen.de)
Date: Mon Nov 27 2000 - 23:18:26 PST

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Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 08:18:26 +0100
From: Thomas Weiler <thweiler@informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Floppy: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device

    Hi Joshua!

    Joshua Uziel wrote:
    >
    [...]>
    > Well, you don't need the umsdos support... but under "Floppy, IDE, and
    > other block devices" which has a "Normal floppy disk support" option I'm
    > assuming you selected. Another thing to check would be if your /dev/fd0
    > device file looks correct. Finally, I don't know of other people using
    > a Voyager, so I don't know if that has anything special about it's
    > floppy drive (though I suspect not... but that machine is a bit
    > special).

    The "Normal floppy disk support" is enabled.
    My /dev/fd0 File is:

            brw-rw-rw- 1 root disk 2, 0 Aug 8 15:00 /dev/fd0

    >
    > > The floppy device seems to be physically ok: I could boot from
    > > (Redhat...) Installation-Floppy (because SuSE's installation floppy
    > > didn't work on my machine -> bad magic number).
    >
    > There's a fixed SuSE boot floppy I've put in http://suse.com/~uzi/sparc/
    > that you can download and test with. Funny that I was gonna suggest it
    > possibly being a bad disk drive (since while I made that boot floppy, I
    > had nothing but problems until I figured out that my test machine had a
    > bad floppy drive in it).

    I've tried this floppy: It worked. I could boot my existing SuSE
    Installation with it.

    >
    > > Does anybody have an idea, how to fix this problem?
    >
    > Try and test those suggestions... if nothing else, we'll look into it
    > more.

    Thanks a lot!

    Thomas

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