Re: mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device

[Ioana Glitia <iglitia@linux360.ro>]

Kent West wrote:

> Ioana Glitia wrote:
>
> > Kent West wrote:
> >
> > > Perhaps you need to "modprobe floppy"?
> > Thank you for your help.  I tried that, but I still get errors like 
> > that, or like, right after I did the modprobe floppy, I got an error 
> > like
> > end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 36
> > floppy0: disk absent or changed during operation
> > end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 38
> > floppy0: disk absent or changed during operation
> > and so on until 94 and then it said
> > attempt to access beyond end of device
> > 02:00: rw=0, want=33, limit=4
> > attempt to access beyond end of device
> > 02:00: rw=0, want=34, limit=4
> > so on until want=36 and then it said
> > /dev/fd0: Input/output error
> > end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
> > mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
>
> This "feels" like a hardware problem. The floppy drive worked before 
> the kernel upgrade?
Yes, that's how I got the new kernel on the thinkpad. I've put it on 
multiple floppies and then joined them together using dpkg-split -j. And 
then i installed it.

> Can you still boot into your old kernel? If so, does the floppy work 
> there?

How can I do that? I don't have the package .deb for the old kernel 
(2.2) -- that came with the base --  on the computer, or at least not 
where I put all the .deb packages that I copied to the thinkpad. But I 
don't know where the base installed the kernel and put it, and how to 
boot into the old kernel. I'm sorry, I suppose I'm more of a newbie when 
it comes to this.

Becky