From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: Bug referenced here: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60887 has been closed. However problem persists for me using Redhat 8.0. Note that I have not attempted to use "Kickstart" with a floppy so I don't know if this works. But once standard installation is completed, demsg outputs - Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M floppy0: no floppy controllers found and the floppy drive is not useable. I have rebuilt a kernel to use floppy as a module and floppy functions correctly. I have also tried additional tips described in the above link, with no success. Am running the latest BIOS from ASUS (1007) for P4T-E. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):kernel-2.4.18-14 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Redhat 8.0 on my ASUS P4T-E 2. Boot computer 3. Insert floppy disk, "mount /mnt/floppy", dmesg |less to see message that floppy controller is not found Actual Results: mount /mnt/floppy mount: can't find /mnt/floppy in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab dmesg |less output (extract): Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M floppy0: no floppy controllers found Floppy drive not accessible Expected Results: mount /mnt/floppy -> Silence, indicating no errors, and successful mount Additional info:
Created attachment 79884 [details] Output of dmidecode for my ASUS P4T-E motherboard
I have identical issue - RH 8.0, P4T-E, floppy controller not found, even though it was recognised during install - I created a boot disk
The same happens with me; note, SuSE does the same, but Mandrake will work (even though you have to get oss for the built in sound mobo's)! Reason unknown...
The new kernel-2.4.18-26.8.0 *appears* to resolve the problem. I am happy now that I can run the out of box RH kernel and access floppy drive now...
oh? I just upgraded my kernel in hopes of it working, but I still have no floppy support. Sure you didn't do anything special? mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device (P4T-E Socket 478 P4 Motherboard; Intel 850 Chipset)
Definately "WORKSFORME". Although I did get the "mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device" error once, changed to a known good floppy, and it was ok. Note the original problem is that kernel would not recognise or find a floppy controller. ie you would be getting "floppy0: no floppy controllers found" line in dmesg. Also, instead of "mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device" you would be getting "mount: can't find /mnt/floppy in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab" - as if there is no floppy drive at all. I suspect that you have a bad floppy disk. Try changing to a known good one, or format the floppy again. Current Kernel: uname -a Linux XXXXXXXX 2.4.18-26.8.0 #1 Mon Feb 24 10:21:42 EST 2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux dmidecode is as per attachement of original bug post. mount /mnt/floppy/ mount /dev/hda2 on / type ext3 (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw) usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw) /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) /dev/fd0 on /mnt/floppy type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev) ls /mnt/floppy/ boot.msg initrd.img options.msg rescue.msg splash.lss syslinux.png general.msg ldlinux.sys param.msg snake.msg syslinux.cfg vmlinuz It works ... Cheers, Michael