No Floppy in Mandrake 8.1

9nine9 · 01-11-2002, 04:19 PM

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Originally posted by jdogg2001
I had the same problem. To fix it, just pass "nobiospnp" option to the kernel. If you boot with lilo, open /etc/lilo.conf, find the kernel you want to boot, and add the above option to the end of the line that says append="..., ..., ..., nobiospnp".
That should fix it. Hope it works. Later.

Yep. That did the trick. There's a note about this problem over at the Mandrake site on the Errata page.

Thanks for the input.

Aussie · 01-11-2002, 06:09 PM

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Originally posted by 9nine9

Properties for fd0:

Type: Block Device
Location: /dev
Size: O B (0)
Points to: floppy/0

"Points to floppy/0"? is this a sym link? It should be the other way around, /dev/floppy should be a link to /dev/fd0

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Properties for 0:

Type: Block Device
Location: /dev/floppy
Size: O B (0)

This entry should be the link

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Also, in the Control Center, in the area where the drives are, on the tab for removable drives, my cdrom and cdrw are there but there is no floppy drive. Shouldn't it be there with the other removable drives?

One its working it will be there.
You might want to try running the makedev script to recreate your floppy dev entries, see "man MAKEDEV" for the commands.

9nine9 · 01-11-2002, 08:27 PM

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Originally posted by Aussie

One its working it will be there.
You might want to try running the makedev script to recreate your floppy dev entries, see "man MAKEDEV" for the commands.

I was finally able to get my floppy working by adding 'nobiospnp' to the append line of /etc/lilo.conf.

At this stage of my Linux experience, I don't know how to tell the difference between a symlink and a link.

Aussie · 01-11-2002, 09:50 PM

Ah yes...links, it helps if you think of hyperlinks but instead of html think of internal links on your computer. A hard link is between things in the same directory and a sym link can span directories....IIRC.

9nine9 · 01-13-2002, 03:32 PM

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Originally posted by Aussie
A hard link is between things in the same directory and a sym link can span directories....IIRC.

Does that mean all the icons on the desktop are sym links?

Aussie · 01-13-2002, 03:44 PM

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Originally posted by 9nine9

Does that mean all the icons on the desktop are sym links?

That depends, I have a hyperlink on my desktop, but all the rest are sym links

9nine9 · 01-13-2002, 03:53 PM

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Originally posted by Aussie

That depends, I have a hyperlink on my desktop, but all the rest are sym links

So how do ya tell?

Aussie · 01-13-2002, 08:41 PM

Because I put them there. You can only do a sym link or a hyperlink on the desktop...well you could do a hard link but it would have to be a link to something else on the desktop, so there would be not much point in it.

Z13 · 03-28-2002, 12:59 PM

Hi, i got the same problem. BTW there are 3 lines with append="..." in my lilo.conf file. Which one should i change?

Z13 · 03-28-2002, 02:38 PM

Nevermind. It's working now.

Sixpax · 03-28-2002, 05:34 PM

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A hard link is between things in the same directory and a sym link can span directories

Actually, that's incorrect. A hard link can be anywhere on the same filesystem, not just in the same directory. It actually points to the same spot on the disk, so for all intents and purposes, it's the same as the origional file except with a different name. If the origional file is deleted, the hard link remains intact. With a sym[bolic] link, if the origional is deleted, you just have a broken link... the file (or directory) is gone.