Hi folks am running dual boot MLN 8.1 and w98 Mandrake has formatted a floppy ok but I can't access it. I've been trying, on and off, for weeks and it's a good thing that I'm a masochist otherwise it would be driving me nuts. Any advice would be very much appreciated.
I took Tom Brinkman's advice and visited <http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/81errata.php3#floppy> where it said:- -Error scenario: The floppy drive is not accessible for use. -Why: The PNP_BIOS does not initalize the floppy controller like the -BIOS. Because of this, you may have difficulty access the drive with -applications like mount or dd, and will receive errors such as -"/dev/fd0: No such device or address" or "Input/output error". -Solution: Boot your kernel with the "nobiospnp" option specified at the -boot command line. I've tried two methods and niether work. Firstly (as suggested in this group)- I've interupted the lilo boot process with ESC so that it stops and displays the prompt 'BOOT:' I then enter as: BOOT:linux nobiospnp and Linux boots as normal but still cannot access the floppy. Second try - I've tried amending the Lilo config file (and entering 'lilo' after saved) and still cant access floppy. I don't know if I've done this correctly - I've put 'nobiospnp' in the 'append' lines. This is the lilo.conf text - boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b default=linux keytable=/boot/uk.klt lba32 prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda5 append=" hdd=ide-scsi devfs=mount quiet nobiospnp" vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hda5 append=" hdd=ide-scsi devfs=mount nobiospnp" read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hda5 append=" hdd=ide-scsi devfs=mount failsafe" read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=windows table=/dev/hda Many thanks Dave S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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