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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux Date: 2001-11-23 11:39:23 PST
> I am using Mandrake8.1 and neither as root or a normal user I am able > to mount my floppy drive in Linux. 'mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/fd0' > returns 'mount: /dev/fd0: unknown device'.
The file /dev/fd0 exists, doesn't it? What are it's major and minor number? You can find it out with (ls -l /dev/fd0). It would give something like: brw-rw---- 1 lurch floppy 2, 0 Aug 30 22:30 /dev/fd0 The major number is 2 and the minor number is 0
Check if the major number in /proc/devices
cat /proc/devices
If you don't have the /dev/fd0 at all, try creating one with mknod: cd /dev; mknod fd0 b 2 0
Try this: Reboot your system, and at the boot prompt (press ESC if you have a graphical LILO boot screen), type "linux nobiospnp".
According to Mandrake 8.1 Errata: "The PNP_BIOS does not initalize the floppy controller like the BIOS."
If this trick works out, then to make this permanent, edit your "/etc/lilo.conf" file to have a line something like
append=" devfs=mount nobiospnp"
located under the section of your currently used kernel.
Chris