-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08-12-2004 15:41, Ragnar Wisloff wrote:
> I was able to access the pen having restarted floppyd with the > devfs-device after having changed manually the permissions. But after > removing and reinserting the pen no access was possible. > > So I wonder if it is correct for floppyd to use the static /dev/sda1 or > whatever device, perhaps the correct device is the devfs one. And > possibly floppyd does not handle devfs very well. With devfs /dev/sda1 is (or should be!) a symlink to the actual device. Either that symlink is not (yet?) created, or floppyd does not handle symlinks to devices. Check if /dev/sda1 actually exists after unplugging and re-plugging the USB key. That is not always the case - guides for booting off of USB keys tend to include adding the following after loading the USB modules to "wakeup" the device: /bin/sleep 5 /sbin/sfdisk -R /dev/sda || true (the fallback to true I invented myself, because it may fail and that is fatal in an initrd) - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er n�r: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBtx1wn7DbMsAkQLgRAg1LAKCLy4cxMlv5h5BZlpejtszK/RtCrACfbLbN cafS0aPyEV7QySeaaUwnU4g= =PFJZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
