hmm, that is strange indeed. if your floppy is still supermounted (though disabled in fstab), then what does a plain
% mount give you? and what is the content of /etc/fstab & /etc/mtab? another thing: if you disable supermount in /etc/fstab, you'll have to umount the devices afterwards as well, eg. % umount /mnt/floppy. only now you can really Am Mon, 2002-06-03 um 22.28 schrieb Jerry Kreps: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > THanks Udo, but those are suggestions that I have already tried. > The CD stops automounting, but the floppy won't. And, I cannot mount > a floppy formatted with ext2, unless I go to root and issue > mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy > manually. Strangly, a DOS formatted floppy mounts fine. what is the output of % cat /proc/filesystems? do you have an autofs entry? > > I just clean installed MDK 8.2, including formatting the HDs, after using > SuSE for FIVE years. SuSE never gave me a problem with mounting ext2 > floppies. oops. suse. I've been using & maintaining suse for a long time as well but finally just had enough crashing installers (yast=YetAnotherSuckingTool), updates that don't update but overwrite, but thats another story. > > In examinging boot.log I noticed the following errors, marked by "<======" > > Jun 2 11:01:00 jlkreps cups: cupsd startup succeeded > Jun 2 12:03:40 jlkreps nfslock: rpc.statd startup succeeded > Jun 2 12:03:40 jlkreps random: Initializing random number generator: succeeded > Jun 2 12:03:41 jlkreps mount: mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device ><=========================== this is ok, you probably had no floppy inserted during boot time? > Jun 2 12:03:41 jlkreps netfs: Mounting other filesystems: failed ><================================= netfs = NFS - unless your machine needs to mount stuff from remote servers at boot time, this should be no problem either. > Jun 2 12:03:41 jlkreps apmd: apmd startup succeeded > Jun 2 12:03:41 jlkreps atd: atd startup succeeded > Jun 2 12:02:28 jlkreps rc.sysinit: Configuring kernel parameters: succeeded > Jun 2 12:02:28 jlkreps date: Sun Jun 2 12:02:28 EDT 2002 > Jun 2 12:02:28 jlkreps rc.sysinit: Setting clock (utc): Sun Jun 2 12:02:28 EDT >2002 succeeded > Jun 2 12:02:28 jlkreps rc.sysinit: Loading default keymap succeeded > Jun 2 12:02:28 jlkreps rc.sysinit: Setting hostname jlkreps.athome: succeeded > Jun 2 12:02:33 jlkreps rc.sysinit: Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode: >succeeded > Jun 2 12:02:33 jlkreps rc.sysinit: Activating swap partitions: succeeded > Jun 2 12:02:41 jlkreps rc.sysinit: Finding module dependencies: succeeded > Jun 2 12:02:41 jlkreps : Loading module: scsi_hostadapter > Jun 2 12:02:41 jlkreps fsck: /dev/hda1: recovering journal > Jun 2 12:02:42 jlkreps fsck: /dev/hda1: clean, 58/6024 files, 3848/24066 blocks > Jun 2 12:02:46 jlkreps mount: mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device ><=============================== > Jun 2 12:02:51 jlkreps rc.sysinit: Mounting local filesystems: failed ><================================= > Jun 2 12:02:51 jlkreps rc.sysinit: Mounting loopback filesystems: succeeded > - -- > ..... > Both appear to be a bad /dev/df0, which is strange since I did a clean install, >including formatting. > /dev/fd0 is a symbolic link to /dev/floppy/* > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 8 Jun 2 18:43 /dev/fd0 -> floppy/0 > > And my dev devices have the following magor & minor numbers: > brw-rw---- 1 jerry floppy 2, 0 Dec 31 1969 /dev/floppy/0 > brw-rw---- 1 jerry floppy 2, 84 Dec 31 1969 /dev/floppy/0u1040 > brw-rw---- 1 jerry floppy 2, 88 Dec 31 1969 /dev/floppy/0u1120 > brw-rw---- 1 jerry floppy 2, 28 Dec 31 1969 /dev/floppy/0u1440 > Does the /dev/floppy/0 device appear to have the correct major and minor numbers to >you? major and minor numbers are ok, your problem is very likely to be just a mount/umount thing. > > Thanks for responding, Udo !! > JLK > > > > > On Monday 03 June 2002 07:12 am, you wrote: > > the desicion, which device is handled by supermount is set - as usually > > - in /etc/fstab. > > > > in order to get your floppy working w/o supermount, you should change > > the floppy entry: > > > > ----CUT---- > > /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount > > dev=/dev/fd0,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850 0 0 > > ----CUT---- > > > > ... to this: > > > > ----CUT---- > > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto defaults 0 0 > > ----CUT---- > > > > I am actually wondering, why mandrake uses vfat as the default floppy > > filesystem, so I suggest using automagic detection (auto). > > > > udo > > > > Am Son, 2002-06-02 um 20.59 schrieb Timothy R. Butler: > > > Hi everyone, > > > I have a friend who is new to Mandrake (but not Linux) and is > > > interested in removing supermount. He has tried disabling it in mcc, and > > > that did the trick a/f/a the CD-ROM drive, however the diskette drive is > > > still being managed by supermount for some reason. Does anyone have > > > suggestions on how to kill off supermount for good on his system? > > > > > > BTW, if anyone who replies could "Reply-to-all" so that my friend gets > > > a copy of your suggestions that would be great. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Tim > > > > > > -- > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Timothy R. 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