Floppy devices not created during FC4 rescue boot

Brian Rademacher rad at radfiles.net
Thu Apr 28 00:43:48 UTC 2005


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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