Re: Floppy IO Errors
On Friday 31 August 2007 04:01:25 Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > I am trying to load a kernel module from a floppy disk (ms dos formatted). > > Is there anything "special" I have to do to format these disks, or make > them readable? I can boot from an MS DOS startup disk (as generated by > XP) but BSD returns an IO error when trying to read any floppy. I've > tried multiple drives, cables, and disks. I don't see the relevance of the boot stage here, but if you wanna load a kernel module from a floppy: # mount_msdosfs /dev/fdc0 /mnt # sysctl kern.module_path="/boot/kernel;/boot/modules;/mnt" # kldload mymodulename /dev/fdc0 being your floppy drive device. -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Floppy IO Errors
All, I am trying to load a kernel module from a floppy disk (ms dos formatted). Is there anything "special" I have to do to format these disks, or make them readable? I can boot from an MS DOS startup disk (as generated by XP) but BSD returns an IO error when trying to read any floppy. I've tried multiple drives, cables, and disks. It's on a tyan dual opteron system. Help much appreciated -- next plan is to create a "scratch" SATA volume to play host to the raid card, but I would like to fix this somehow. -Dan -- "I love you forever eternally." -Connaian Expression Dan Mahoney Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Site: http://www.gushi.org --- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
