Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386 Version: 2.6.8-16 Severity: normal I installed Debian sarge (3.1 r0) on an old Pentium machine, following the manual debootstrap procedure (described in the Debian sarge installation guide, appendix C.). I could not use debian-installer because I didn't have enough memory (only 16 Mibyte).
Now I cannot mount floppy disks (not even as root): # mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy/ mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device # ls -altrF /dev/fd0 brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 0 Feb 26 2005 /dev/fd0 # tail -3 /var/log/kern.log Oct 9 16:33:55 oldbox kernel: inserting floppy driver for 2.6.8-2-386 Oct 9 16:33:55 oldbox kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M Oct 9 16:33:55 oldbox kernel: floppy0: Floppy io-port 0x03f2 in use But io-port 0x03f2 does not seem to be in use: # cat /proc/ioports 0000-001f : dma1 0020-0021 : pic1 0040-005f : timer 0060-006f : keyboard 0080-008f : dma page reg 00a0-00a1 : pic2 00c0-00df : dma2 00f0-00ff : fpu 0170-0177 : ide1 01f0-01f7 : ide0 02f8-02ff : serial 0376-0376 : ide1 03c0-03df : vga+ 03f3-03f3 : pnp 00:07 03f6-03f6 : ide0 03f8-03ff : serial 04d0-04d1 : pnp 00:07 0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1 f000-f00f : 0000:00:07.1 f000-f007 : ide0 f008-f00f : ide1 The error shows up even when simply trying to load floppy.ko: # lsmod | grep floppy # modprobe floppy FATAL: Error inserting floppy (/lib/modules/2.6.8-2-386/kernel/drivers/block/floppy.ko): Device or resource busy # tail -3 /var/log/kern.log Oct 9 16:41:02 oldbox kernel: inserting floppy driver for 2.6.8-2-386 Oct 9 16:41:02 oldbox kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M Oct 9 16:41:02 oldbox kernel: floppy0: Floppy io-port 0x03f2 in use Please note that: * I can mount the same floppy disk flawlessly if I boot with System Rescue CD (a live distro currently based on Linux 2.4.x: http://www.sysresccd.org/) * I had no difficulties in using the floppy drive when other distros were installed on the same machine (DamnSmallLinux http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/, DeLi Linux http://www.delilinux.de/) * I even tried booting with the floppy=thinkpad kernel parameter (despite this machine is not a laptop), but the error still showed up * I searched the f...ine web and found a few people that experienced the same problem, but most of them got no answer from the forum or mailing list they were writing to, while the rest of them got suggestions that do not seem to work (at least for me...) What can I do? Thanks for your attention. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i586) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-386 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386 depends on: ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities ii initrd-tools 0.1.81.1 tools to create initrd image for p ii module-init-tools 3.2-pre1-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
