on Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 10:25:13AM -0700, Pad Bambury (celt_086@yahoo.com) wrote:
> Hey all,
> Thanks for the advice but still getting the same
> messages. Here's the fstab file, if anyone can see
> any problems and suggest solutions that would be
> great.
>
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump>
> <pass> /dev/hda2 / ext2
> defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
> /dev/hda8 none swap sw
> 0 0
> proc /proc proc defaults
> 0 0
> /dev/hda5 /usr ext2 defaults 0 2
> /dev/hda6 /var ext2 defaults 0 2
> /dev/hda7 /home ext2 defaults 0 2
> /dev/hda1 /celt ext2 defaults 0 2
> /dev/hdc /cdrom iso9660 noauto,users 0 2
> /dev/fd0 /floppy msdos noauto,users 0 2
I don't recall your original post entirely, but there was a problem
accessing /dev/fd0? I don't believe the advice above is germain.
- Does your floppy drive seek during boot? Is it powered on? Do you
have loose cabling? Check the hardware first.
- Do you have a /dev/fd0 file?
- Is it a device file:
brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 0 Dec 5 1999 /dev/fd0
- Can you read from it? As root, with a floppy installed:
$ dd if=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1
...should spew some binary garbage across your screen. Just make
sure that's "if". "of" will *write* to the floppy, overwriting any
data (and filesystem) there.
- Do you have an entry for 'fd' in /proc/devices:
$ cat /proc/devices
Character devices:
1 mem
2 pty
<...>
Block devices:
2 fd
3 ide0
<...>
I suspect a system configuration problem.
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