Bug 78874
Summary: | Floppy device not recognized on Asus P4T-E when usig grub | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Need Real Name <john.pover> |
Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Arjan van de Ven <arjanv> |
Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 8.0 | CC: | berthoms, coppola, pward |
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Hardware: | i686 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2006-02-21 18:50:15 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Need Real Name
2002-12-02 17:07:07 UTC
This sounds like a kernel problem, not a problem with the boot loader Tried to fix this problem with the following lines in grub.conf : "kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-18.8.0 disableapic ro root=LABEL=/" or : "kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-18.8.0 noapic ro root=LABEL=/" or : "kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-18.8.0 ro root=LABEL=/ disableapic" or : "kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-18.8.0 ro root=LABEL=/ noapic" The result is as before, as can be read in /var/log/dmesg : "floppy0: no floppy controllers found" The Asus P4T-E floppy is known to be very very weird and isnt supported by Linux. Somebody advised me to install lilo as alternative bootloader instead as this would be a grub-problem, a rather bleak option in my view. Still : The same motherboard does not have these problems with the floppy device when dual-booting into Windows 2000 Professional. I have the identical problem...RH 8.0, P4T-E MB, floppy controller is not recognised. There are 2 other bugs open for the same issue, 75687 and 78874. Please note that during installation the floppy WAS detected. I created a boot disk. Problem known with (almost all) P4-TE Asus motherboards not recognizing floppy at boot; the bug does not depend on Rh 8.0, and is reproducible with different linux distributions too. The floppy is OK once recognized. I think the bug is reported with several different numbers, i lost count. Proposed workaround: compile floppy as a module. It delays floppy recognition and then system works reliably. Tested on RH 7.2, I am recompiling 8.0 to test it again. Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated. |