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

[Robert Nichols]

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.

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Bob Nichols         rnichols at interaccess.com