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