Floppy devices not created during FC4 rescue boot

[Brian Rademacher]

Oh, and you should be able to create and mount it manually by:

mknod /dev/fd0 b 2 0
mkdir /mnt/floppy
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Rademacher" <rad at radfiles.net>
To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" 
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Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 6:43 PM
Subject: Re: Floppy devices not created during FC4 rescue boot


>I filed it and it got closed as fixed in rawhide, so it may be fixed...
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=152381
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ian Puleston" <ian at underpressuredivers.com>
> To: <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 10:52 AM
> Subject: FW: Floppy devices not created during FC4 rescue boot
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been trying Fedora (FC4 test 1) for the first time, and I've just 
>> run
>> into a problem. All was working fine until I tried to install a 3rd-party
>> multi-boot program (I know, bad idea - should've gone straight to Grub) 
>> and
>> now, after removing that multi-booter, Linux won't boot - it appears that
>> the hard drive with Linux on is no longer bootable. But the main problem 
>> is
>> that I can't now create a boot disk to fix it. When I boot linux rescue 
>> from
>> the FC4 test 1 install CD it fails to create the floppy disk devices 
>> during
>> the boot with the following messages:
>>
>> Unable to create /dev/fd0 - operation not permitted
>> Unable to create /dev/fd1 - operation not permitted
>>
>> Hence I can't run mkbootdisk to create a boot floppy. The /dev/fd0 device
>> was fine in the FC4 system before this happened, and the floppy still 
>> works
>> fine under Windows on the same PC so the hardware is OK. Any ideas why 
>> this
>> may be?, or any other way to make the hard drive bootable again other 
>> than a
>> full re-install?
>>
>> I also tried downloading the FC4 test 2 rescue CD iso and the same 
>> happens
>> when I boot with that.
>>
>> Is this a but that should be reported in Bugzilla?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ian
>>
>>
>>
>>
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