Hi

at 20.05.2011 10:46, Mark Plowman wrote:
> Ladies and Gentlemen,
> 
> I am (gradually) attempting to upgrade my trusty Bering-uClibc_3.x
> Floppy Firewall to a Bering-uClibc_4.0-rc1 CD & Floppy.
> 
> I burnt a Bering-uClibc_4.0-rc1_i486_isolinux_vga.iso CD, added a CD
> drive to the old Pentium MMX box, configured the BIOS to enable the
> IDE controller and be able to boot from CD and booted.
> 
> It all came up but the Floppy Disk Controller wasn't detected and
> consequently I could progress much further.  :-(
> 
> The old Bering-uClibc_3 floppy (same hardware, same BIOS
> configuration) says:
> 
>   Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
>   FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
> 
> What am I doing wrong?

I _guess_ your initrd does not include the floppy.ko kernel module. Can
you try to look what is in /boot/etc/modules?

Try

lsmod floppy

then

modprobe floppy

cheers

Erich

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