dd if=* of=/dev/fd0 freezing my computer.

[Matt Morgan]

On 04/11/2004 05:05 AM, Robert Nichols wrote:

> Matt Morgan wrote:
>
>> Now that I have a working floppy drive, I have a whole new topic to 
>> start. Y'all are gonna get sick of my floppy drive.
>>
>> dd is crashing my computer. I'm trying to write floppy disk boot 
>> images, with
>>
>> dd if=whatever.img of=/dev/fd0
>>
>> and invariably my system freezes. Can't ctrl-alt-f1, can't alt-tab, 
>> can't anything. Mouse pointer disappears, nothing moves. All I can do 
>> is cycle power.
>>
>> As far as I can tell, everything else about the floppy is working. I 
>> can format disks and read and write them, I can read and write 
>> DOS-formatted disks, etc.
>
>
> Try adding "apm=off" to the kernel parameters when you boot.  See
>
>    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=112917
>    Summary: Total system lockup writing to floppy disk
>
> Your problem isn't quite the same, but sounds similar.
>
> -- 
> Bob Nichols         rnichols at interaccess.com
>
That did the trick! Thanks.