From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] floppy requests
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 07:56:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020622145614.GG22961@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200206221033.MAA15741@harpo.it.uu.se>
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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2002-06-22 10:33 [BUG] floppy requests Mikael Pettersson
2002-06-22 14:56 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
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2002-06-21 23:04 William Lee Irwin III
2002-06-21 23:09 ` William Lee Irwin III
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