My attempt to cross install sarge on a new disk has run aground because after upgrading to sarge on my old disk I've run into increasing floppy problems. I'm running sarge, 2.4.18-bf2.4.
The initial problem was trying to umount floppies. The fstab lines are: /dev/fd0 /floppy auto noauto,rw,sync,user,exec 0 0 automount(pid382) on /floppy type autofs (rw,fd=5,pgrp=382,minprot0=2,maxproto=4) Do I understand correctly that automount will mount the floppy if the floppy is accessed? If so, it does not work. Ps aux does not show any process 382. There's no auto umount after five minutes. I have no trouble mounting a floppy with $ mount /floppy but when I umount, root can do it, but not user: $ umount /floppy umount: it seems /floppy is mounted multiple times This even immediately after a reboot. To umount the floppy, either root must do it or I must run: $ umount /dev/fd0 Then came a econd problem with floppies. When I insert a vfat unmounted floppy and do: # cd /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc # dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out # dd if=stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1 153+1 records in 153+1 records out The floppy becomes bootable, but is no longer mountable: $ mount /floppy mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified # mount /floppy mount: you must specify the filesystem type # mount -t vfat /dev/df0 /floppy mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or too many mounted file systems I can boot the floppy to the grub> prompt, but being unable to mount it, can't put on it the directories and files needed for a grub menu. If I try the dd to copy stage1 and stage2 after constructing putting in place the directory and files for the menu, doing so destroys the ability to bring up the grub menu. I also find that grub now maps my hard disks differently than before: sda (fd0) sdb (fd2) sdc (fd1) I've already raised this issue and created a bug report, but there's been no action on it. I'd really like to complete the installation of sarge, but am blocked by my inability to create boot floppies. Haines Brown _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub