From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 10:56:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 10:56:45 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:48325 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 10:56:45 -0400 Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 07:56:14 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Mikael Pettersson Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [BUG] floppy requests Message-ID: <20020622145614.GG22961@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Mikael Pettersson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200206221033.MAA15741@harpo.it.uu.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Description: brief message Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200206221033.MAA15741@harpo.it.uu.se> 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 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