From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 19:04:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 19:04:45 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:25796 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 19:04:44 -0400 Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 16:04:17 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [BUG] floppy requests Message-ID: <20020621230417.GA25360@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Description: brief message Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org So I ran grub to try to install it on a disk to boot elsewhere. Lo and behold, the legendary robustness of floppy handling bursts forth: On 2.5.24 Cheers, Bill generic_make_request: Trying to access nonexistent block-device fd(2,0) (0) Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 000000a0 printing eip: c023e39d *pde = 0d6d1001 Oops: 0000 CPU: 1 EIP: 0010:[] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010002 eax: 00000000 ebx: c95f9e58 ecx: c95f8000 edx: c95f9e60 esi: 00000000 edi: c1175358 ebp: e650fd40 esp: c95f9e2c ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process grub (pid: 28571, threadinfo=c95f8000 task=e6ed2060) Stack: c95f9e58 c95f9e74 c0246ce3 00000000 e650fd40 00000000 c95f9e74 e650fd40 00000200 00000001 f7570200 00000001 00000001 c95f9e60 c95f9e60 c1175358 00000400 00000000 00000000 00000000 e650fd40 00000000 00000000 00000001 Call Trace: [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] Code: 8b 86 a0 00 00 00 f0 fe 08 0f 88 d0 18 00 00 8d 9e 94 00 00 <6>note: grub[28571] exited with preempt_count 2