* Barry K. Nathan <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm doing building the kernel, but I haven't been able to boot it yet:
> This system boots the kernel off floppy disks, and under
> 2.6.17-rc5-mm2, the floppy drive no longer works! The disk spins but
> the kernel can't read any of the disk's sectors, even for other
> known-working floppies. I'll have to boot back into 2.6.17-rc4-mm3
> before I can copy the new kernel onto a disk and boot from it. That
> will take me a couple of minutes, although I have to go to school in
> under an hour so I might not get to it until later today.
does it get any better if you remove:
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.17-rc5/2.6.17-rc5-mm2/broken-out/lock-validator-floppyc-irq-release-fix.patch
?
Ingo
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