Re: [BUG] floppy requests

William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Sat, 22 Jun 2002 07:56:14 -0700


On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 16:04:17 -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> generic_make_request: Trying to access nonexistent block-device fd(2,0) (0)
>> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 000000a0

On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 12:33:57PM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> Search the LKML archives, keyword floppy.
> Floppies work in raw mode with a patch, but FS access to mounted
> floppies will hang your kernel or destroy data.

I've no idea why grub wants to get at a floppy, I'm trying to get
at /dev/sdk and there are literally no floppy drives or controllers
in the system.

Cheers,
Bill
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