Re: Debian Installer - boot floppies
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 02:55:10PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 11:38:55PM +0800, Tomasz Grzegurzko wrote:
> > I've been trying to coax the floppy images from
> > http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/floppy/
> > (where daily = 25/2/2006) to boot on a 7200/75 I've picked up. The
> > system boots of the disks fine, which many of the earlier revisions of
> > the images do not (the ones pointed to by the debian documentation only
> > contain seemingly empty disk images, weird). Other times, I've inserted
> > the boot disk and after loading it up the screen blanks and will not
> > switch back on. However, my issue with the daily set from above is the
> > floppy module. It seems that the module "floppy" will not load either
> > from the installer or via a modprobe.
> >
> > # depmod -a
> > # modprobe floppy
> > FATAL: Error inserting floppy
> > (/lib/modules/2.6.15-1-powerpc-miboot/kernel/drivers/block/floppy.ko):
> > Device or resource busy
> > # dmesg | tail
> > register_blkdev: cannot get major 2 for fd
>
> Ok, we need to investigate this, i am at fosdem, where i picked up a prep box
> and another oldworld, and will be back home only wednesday and probably not
> have time until next WE, but i will definitively try a run of those.
This problem seems pretty simple. The driver floppy.ko is for normal PC
style floppy controllers. Apple never did use such a beast in a Mac. The
swim3 driver should handle the floppy drives for all PCI Macs that have
internal floppy drives. You might check to see if it is already loaded,
since the floppy.ko driver said that something else was already using
block major 2.
Brad Boyer
flar@allandria.com
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