Re: Mounting floppy (or not) - Debian 2.2r5 for ppp (potato)
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Clive Menzies wrote:
> I've loaded Debian 2.2.r5 (Kernel 2.4.4) on to a Mac 8100/80, which is a
> nubus Mac, by using the MkLinux mach_kernel from http://nubus-pmac.sf.net/.
>
> So far so good but I've hit a problem mounting floppies. Mounting
> CD's is fine but "mount /floppy" gives "/dev/fd0 has wrong major or
> minor number"
>
> /etc/fstab is as follows:
>
> /dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0
>
> "ls -l /dev gives:
>
> brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 0 Apr 15 2001 fd0
>
> fd1 doesn't work either. In case you're wondering, I have unmounted the CD.
>
> Thanks. Confused but hopeful
Hey Clive,
I don't have any experience with the mkLinux kernel, but the error you're
describing refers to the device special files in /dev that the kernel uses
to talk to the hardware installed on the computer upon which it runs. The
major and minor numbers associated with these files are used for the
kernel to sort the various files internally, as the acutal names are
meaningful by convention, but arbitrary in fact. I guess the mkLinux
kernel is expecting the floppy block device to have different major and
minor numbers than the debian installation assumes they should have.
You'll have to ask in the mkLinux circles as well as here to find out what
numbers mkLinux is expecting for a floppy block device.
Brian
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