Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 15533
lilo (or mkbootdisk) fails with ls-120
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:57 EDT
I've got an LS-120 on my gateway 5150 laptop. It lives at /dev/hdc and I have the following in /etc/fstab /dev/hdc /mnt/ls120 auto user,exec,dev,suid,rw,noauto 1 1 I can mount either 1.44M or 120M disks, no problem. However, I cannot make a boot disk. If I do mkbootdisk --device /dev/hdc 2.2.16 it runs, but fails at the end. I have traced the problem to lilo, which gives the following error message: mknod /tmp/dev.0: No such file or directory if I put in lots of of "-v" in the lilo run, this error happens after the following output [lots of "Caching device /dev/*** (0x****)] Caching device /dev/loop7 (0x0707) Reading boot sector from /dev/hdc Invalidating cache entry for /dev/hda (0x0300) mknod /tmp/dev.0: No such file or directory Any ideas?
This bug still exists with RedHat 7.1beta "Wolverine". My Abit BP6 has an LS-120 at /dev/hda (and no regular floppy drives - the controller is even turned off in the BIOS) and during the installation when it tried to create a boot disk it went into an infinite loop accessing the drive. I had to re-run the installation and skip making a boot disk to complete the installation.
LS-120 boot floppies, they aren't just for IA-64 anymore...
P.S. I was using a 1.44MB diskette in the LS-120 drive rather than a 120MB one.
I've verified that creating a bootdisk with LS-120 works with our internal builds as of April 3. I have a test machine here with an internal LS120 drive and no floppy. You have to disable the floppy controller in the bios, though, or the kernel will think there's a floppy drive on /dev/fd0.