On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 11:57:56PM +0700, Philippe wrote: > Hi, > I just made a fresh RH9 install on a Desktop 1.7 Ghz Celeron. This is > not my first intallation, and I did check the machine before (Monitor, > video card, sound card). > Everything went fine, but I notices no "Floppy" item on the hardware > browser. > Adding it manually in fstab, was removed on the next boot, and I had > time to see the message : /dev/fd0 : no floppy controller detected (or > something like this, I will double-check tomorrow). > So here I am now, with no floppy, quite crucial for my customer. > > What am I supposed to do now ? > > I will tomorrow upgrade the kernel to the 2.4.20-24.9 last update hoping > this could fixe things ... > > Is it a kernel compatibility problem or a motherboard problem ? > > I just need some information, as Google did not help me a lot on this. > > I will tomorrow check every message, and write down the motherboard > brandname as I did not have enough time tonight. > > We never know if someone got a idea about what checking more, I am > "listening" ;-) > > Thanks, > > Philippe ---end quoted text--- Try sticking a floppy into the drive and running mdir If with a disk in the drive, Can't open /dev/fd0, try booting the box from a Windows 98 boot disk or dos boot disk and see if the drive is functioning properly. Bios: boot from floppy drive a: first! Do you have a device file called fd0? ls -la /dev/fd0 brw-rw---- 1 jay floppy 2, 0 Jan 30 2003 /dev/fd0 Finally, check the floppy drive cable again. Hope this helps, jay -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
