floppy=thinkpad mount/umount

[frank@agetech.net]

thank you very much Carey !

        the magic word was "append="
in lilo.conf . I only had "floppy=thinkpad" .

AND I also have to insert the floppy just
after the systems starts to boot ! so that when
it gets to the mount from /etc/fstab it also
mounts the floppy correctly ! STRANGE !

If I do NOT include in /etc/fstab :
        "/dev/fd0     /floppy     msdos   defaults"

The system will NOT  mount it later !
complaining "/dev/fd0 is not a block device"  !

To change floppies I have to :
        umount /dev/fd0
        mount -a ( while the /dev/fd0 entry is uncommented in /etc/fstab )

However , If I use
        umount /dev/fd0 /floppy
        mount -a
the system complains "/dev/fd0 is not a block device"  !

        Do YOU have any idea why the extra "/floppy" would cause this ?

It seems the append="floppy=thinkpad" in lilo.conf only takes
effect on BOOT TIME ! ( When boot mounts the floppy ).

If I boot WITHOUT inserting the floppy after the boot is in progress,
( and /etc/fstab file has the /dev/fd0 entry as above )
the boot process will error several times trying to mount the floppy and
timeout and eventually continue with the boot.

Then when I issue a "mount -a" it will mount the floppy
but making it only READ-ONLY !

Subsequent "mount -t msdos -rw /dev/fd0 /floppy"
complains with :
        block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
        mount: block device /dev/fd0 is not permitted on its filesystem

only a "mount -a"  mounts the floppy !

What makes the /dev/fd0 READ-ONLY ? 

Is there an entry in /etc/fstab that sets this or is it in the boot process ?

Thanks,
        frank naranjo


At 09:31 PM 10/7/97 +1300, Carey Evans wrote:
>frank@agetech.net writes:
>
>> Problem :
>> The suggestion to put "floppy=thinkpad"
>> into the lilo.conf did not work.
>
>My lilo.conf looks like the following.  I have a non-standard CD-ROM
>(a Sony CDU-33A), so put the command for the non-standard floppy in
>the same place.
>
>boot=/dev/hda1
>root=/dev/hda1
>compact
>install=/boot/boot.b
>map=/boot/map
>vga=normal
>delay=10
>message=/boot/message
>
>image=/vmlinuz
>label=Linux
>append="isp16=0x340,10,Sony cdu31a=0x340,10"
>read-only
>
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