On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 07:10:24PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386 > Version: 2.6.8-16 > Severity: normal > > I installed Debian sarge (3.1 r0) on an old Pentium machine, following the > manual debootstrap procedure (described in the Debian sarge installation > guide, appendix C.). I could not use debian-installer because I didn't > have enough memory (only 16 Mibyte). > > Now I cannot mount floppy disks (not even as root): > > # mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy/ > mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device > # ls -altrF /dev/fd0 > brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 0 Feb 26 2005 /dev/fd0 > # tail -3 /var/log/kern.log > Oct 9 16:33:55 oldbox kernel: inserting floppy driver for 2.6.8-2-386 > Oct 9 16:33:55 oldbox kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M > Oct 9 16:33:55 oldbox kernel: floppy0: Floppy io-port 0x03f2 in use > > But io-port 0x03f2 does not seem to be in use: > > # cat /proc/ioports > 0000-001f : dma1 > 0020-0021 : pic1 > 0040-005f : timer > 0060-006f : keyboard > 0080-008f : dma page reg > 00a0-00a1 : pic2 > 00c0-00df : dma2 > 00f0-00ff : fpu > 0170-0177 : ide1 > 01f0-01f7 : ide0 > 02f8-02ff : serial > 0376-0376 : ide1 > 03c0-03df : vga+ > 03f3-03f3 : pnp 00:07 > 03f6-03f6 : ide0 > 03f8-03ff : serial > 04d0-04d1 : pnp 00:07 > 0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1 > f000-f00f : 0000:00:07.1 > f000-f007 : ide0 > f008-f00f : ide1
Are you sure that the drive is actually at 0x03f2? > The error shows up even when simply trying to load floppy.ko: > > # lsmod | grep floppy > # modprobe floppy > FATAL: Error inserting floppy > (/lib/modules/2.6.8-2-386/kernel/drivers/block/floppy.ko): Device or resource > busy > # tail -3 /var/log/kern.log > Oct 9 16:41:02 oldbox kernel: inserting floppy driver for 2.6.8-2-386 > Oct 9 16:41:02 oldbox kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M > Oct 9 16:41:02 oldbox kernel: floppy0: Floppy io-port 0x03f2 in use > > > Please note that: > > * I can mount the same floppy disk flawlessly if I boot with > System Rescue CD (a live distro currently based on Linux 2.4.x: > http://www.sysresccd.org/) > * I had no difficulties in using the floppy drive when other > distros were installed on the same machine (DamnSmallLinux > http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/, DeLi Linux http://www.delilinux.de/) > * I even tried booting with the floppy=thinkpad kernel parameter > (despite this machine is not a laptop), but the error still > showed up > * I searched the f...ine web and found a few people that experienced > the same problem, but most of them got no answer from the forum > or mailing list they were writing to, while the rest of them > got suggestions that do not seem to work (at least for me...) > > > What can I do? It seems like a fairly specialised problem, but fortunately due to the beuaty of free software you have all the information you need to resolve the problem yourself. -- Horms -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]