Loading Driver Disk from /dev/hdd??

[Harrington, Todd]

Hello, I fixed my problem. When I added a floppy drive to my system
it showed up in the boot order (even thought I did not want to boot from it)
so I figured the system saw the floppy drive but once I saw RedHat asking me for 
/dev/hdd for my driver disk I looked at the Floppy Controller in the BIOS and it
was DISABLED! Since it was disabled, RedHat did not see a floppy so it 
must have defaulted to /dev/hdd. I enabled the floppy controller and now everything
works as expected.
 
Thanks for everyone's response.
 
 - Todd

-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of DUARDITO
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 6:27 PM
To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
Subject: Re: Loading Driver Disk from /dev/hdd??


I had same problem with this option, I still don´t know how to solve it.


2006/3/22, Rick Stevens < rstevens at vitalstream.com>: 

On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 10:32 -0600, Harrington, Todd wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an Intel Server (Jarrell) with onboard SATA RAID (configured as a mirror), along with a PC floppy and IDE CD-ROM. When I install RedHat Enterprise Linux v3 from CD I choose "linux dd" at the "boot:" prompt. When it prompts me "Do you have a driver disk?" (for my onboard SATA RAID) I answer YES and it says loading driver from "/dev/hdd"??? Why is trying to load from /dev/hdd? I want it to load from /dev/fd0. I have never seen this. 

Please wrap your lines at 72 characters.  Single line messages are very
difficult to read.

Are you certain it was trying to read /dev/hdd?  Did the floppy light
come on?  Are you certain the message wasn't "loading driver 
FOR /dev/hdd"?

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