Charles Boening wrote:
>
> I have the latest incarnation of Mandrake 7(air)
> installed on a 2.5gig partition at the end of my drive.
>
> I'm running Windows 98 SE also.
> When I boot to Linux, I'm using loadlin.
> loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 mem=192m
>
> I don't have a standard floppy drive in my system.
> /dev/hda (IBM 22gig IDE)
> /dev/hdb (cd reader)
> /dev/hdc (ls-120)
> /dev/hdd (cd writer)
>
> I think I'm running into a problem with supermount.
> I keep getting "FAT bread failed" and "floppy0 timeout" errors.
> It's especially bad when I try to install an RPM. Why this is,
> I'm not too sure.
>
> Do I need to modify my loadlin line and pass a floppy=/dev/hdc parameter.
> I remember reading something about this only it was a cdrom=/dev/hdb or
> something like that.
>
> Thanks
> Charlie
try
append="hdc=ide-floppy" in /etc/lilo.conf then run lilo and
reboot
Civileme
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