fd0 problems with fedora

[Robert Nichols]

John Meagher wrote:
> Hello all,
> I have just started with Fedora and my first installation attempt
> crashed when I tried to create a boot disk.  So the second time I said
> no to that option and did a mkbootdisk /dev/fd0 after the system came
> up.  Crash again.  Rebooted, tried fdformat, crash again. mdir works
> fine but mcopy crashes the system.
> 
> If I try to mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy, it tells me fd0 is not a valid
> block device.  ditto if I do it with the gui tool.  When the system
> boots, "Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M" gets written in the log.
> 
> There's a bug in bugzilla # 102565 which is the first thing you see when
> you google on fedora fdformat, but it's dated last Aug 18 and there's
> been no action on it since assignment.  There also haven't been any
> other complaints on this list as far as I can see, so it must be rare.

See if bug #112917 "Total system lockup writing to floppy disk" applies
to your case.

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Bob Nichols         rnichols at interaccess.com