Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 76513
cannot mount floppy
Last modified: 2008-08-01 12:22:52 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Description of problem: I can use my floppy drive to boot and install Linux 8.0 on my HP Vectra XU 6/150, but I can't create a boot floppy at the end of the install and I cannot access the floppy drive from Linux at all. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.mount /dev/fd0 /mount/floppy 2. 3. Actual Results: mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device Expected Results: It should have mounted the floppy. Additional info: I didn't have this problem with Linux 6.x and 7.x. My GUESS is that something has changed in the floppy driver included in the kernel. I installed Linux 8.0 three times and got the same problem. Thank you.
Created attachment 96377 [details] problem with mounting and reading the floppy I have a brand new machine running RH9 and get the same problem. Not able to read/write/mount the floppy. I have changed the default to vfat and not success. If I try to mount the floppy with out the disk inside I get the dev/fd0 is not a valid block device. If I mount it with the disk inside the bay the system gets stack, and I have to unpluge it from the power.
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