John Meagher wrote:
Hello all,
I have just started with Fedora and my first installation attempt
crashed when I tried to create a boot disk. So the second time I said
no to that option and did a mkbootdisk /dev/fd0 after the system came
up. Crash again. Rebooted, tried fdformat, crash again. mdir works
fine but mcopy crashes the system.
If I try to mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy, it tells me fd0 is not a valid
block device. ditto if I do it with the gui tool. When the system
boots, "Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M" gets written in the log.
There's a bug in bugzilla # 102565 which is the first thing you see when
you google on fedora fdformat, but it's dated last Aug 18 and there's
been no action on it since assignment. There also haven't been any
other complaints on this list as far as I can see, so it must be rare.
See if bug #112917 "Total system lockup writing to floppy disk" applies
to your case.
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Bob Nichols rnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
