On 04/11/2004 05:05 AM, Robert Nichols wrote:
Matt Morgan wrote:
Now that I have a working floppy drive, I have a whole new topic to start. Y'all are gonna get sick of my floppy drive.
dd is crashing my computer. I'm trying to write floppy disk boot images, with
dd if=whatever.img of=/dev/fd0
and invariably my system freezes. Can't ctrl-alt-f1, can't alt-tab, can't anything. Mouse pointer disappears, nothing moves. All I can do is cycle power.
As far as I can tell, everything else about the floppy is working. I can format disks and read and write them, I can read and write DOS-formatted disks, etc.
Try adding "apm=off" to the kernel parameters when you boot. See
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=112917 Summary: Total system lockup writing to floppy disk
Your problem isn't quite the same, but sounds similar.
-- Bob Nichols rnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
That did the trick! Thanks.
