--- Borsenkow Andrej <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On óÂÔ, 2001-12-15 at 03:13, SI Reasoning wrote: > > I have a Dell Inspiron 8000 laptop. It has 2 > modular > > bays in front. I recently bought a modular cdrw > and > > powered down the device, then removed the floppy > and > > put it in that modular bay. When I rebooted the > system > > locked up trying to mount a vfat directory (the > floppy > > drive). To get it to work, I had to # the floppy > drive > > statement in fstab. > > > > Is this something that can be solved by devfs? If > > devfs does not find the drive then it does not try > and > > mount it through fstab.... or maybe rebuild > > removeables (such as floppy, cdroms, etc) each > reboot? > > > > How else can this problem be resolved? > > > > What problem? What is in your fstab? What is your > system version? What > is your boot string? Do you run aurora? What is in > dmesg? Do you use > supermount?
I do not run aurora anymore, I use the generic linux boot string (default to "linux" in lilo). I am using kernel 2.4.16-6mdk. I do use supermount. In the following fstab, I had to comment out the floppy statement to get it to run. Unfortunately, I could not find the error messages in any of the logs. Visually I saw it attempting to load the vfat driver for the floppy drive when it froze. /etc/fstab /dev/hda6 / ext3 noatime 1 1 /dev/hda5 /boot ext2 noatime 1 2 none /dev/pts d evpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/mandrake/3 /home reiserfs noatime,notail 1 2 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdb,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /mnt/cdrw /mnt/cdrw supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/redhat ext3 defaults 1 2 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/mandrake/1 /usr xfs noatime 1 2 192.168.1.1:/usr/local/OpenOffice.org641 /usr/local/OpenOffice.org641 nfs defaults 0 0 /dev/mandrake/2 /var xfs noatime 1 2 /dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0 192.168.1.7:/home /mnt/home nfs noauto 0 0 192.168.1.7:/mnt/win_d /mnt/win_d nfs defaults 0 0 ===== SI Reasoning [EMAIL PROTECTED] "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com
