Floppy devices not created during FC4 rescue boot

[Ian Puleston]

Thanks for that Brian. The mknod didn't work - mount then gave error "not a
block device". So I gave up and just did a full Fedora re-install.

I now have Grub successfully installed on my SATA RAID drive (getting it on
there was especially painful since there's no VIA RAID driver available for
FC4 yet) and its working beautifully to dual-boot Windows on the RAID drive
and Linux on an IDE drive.

I may take a look at updating the VIA RAID driver for FC1 to the new
architecture for FC4. Anyone know if the differences are documented
anywhere?

Ian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-test-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-test-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Brian Rademacher
> Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 5:48 PM
> To: Brian Rademacher; For testers of Fedora Core development releases
> Subject: Re: Floppy devices not created during FC4 rescue boot
> 
> 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"
> <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
> 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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