Eric Shubes wrote: > The error wasn't absolutely consistent. The long rw: value varied. Usually > 24, but sometimes 13 or 20. The rs= value changed too, 2 and 15 > respectively. > The install media was fine. I checked, double checked, cleaned the drive, > and even created media on the same computer which was failing. On occasion > (3 times out of 20 or so) > > I also tried various other parameters: floppy=0,daring; =broken_dcl; > =slow, and none helped. > > I don't know why floppy=nofifo fixed the problem with Woody (Woody had the > same symptoms without it). It appears to me as though floppy=nofifo simply > doesn't work. At least it doesn't do what it did with Woody. > > I've since done a dist-upgrade instead, so I'm not in need of this to > work, but it would be nice to have it fixed for the next person who tries > it. I'll be happy to do whatever testing that may be needed. The issue is that kernel boot time parameters are not seen by modules when they're loaded. The floppy driver is a module in sarge. You should be able to work around the problem by booting with BOOT_DEBUG=3. This will give you several shell prompts after the floppy boots. At the first one, "before hardware detection", you can try to "modprobe floppy floppy=nofifo". If that works for you, then we obviously need a better fix to let these parameters be specified. -- see shy jo
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