From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 15:33:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 15:33:43 -0500 Received: from esteel10.client.dti.net ([209.73.14.10]:58549 "EHLO nynews01.e-steel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 15:33:26 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: not-for-mail From: Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer Newsgroups: e-steel.mailing-lists.linux.linux-kernel Subject: Floppy disk strange behavior Date: 09 Jan 2001 15:33:15 -0500 Organization: e-STEEL Netops news server Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: shookay.e-steel X-Trace: nynews01.e-steel.com 979072328 27294 192.168.3.43 (9 Jan 2001 20:32:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@nynews01.e-steel.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 Jan 2001 20:32:08 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! I have switched a long time ago to linux-2.4 (and even 2.3 series) and I have a wierd problem. I use GRUB to boot my system. Basically, when you want to install GRUB on a floppy disk, you do that: dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1 dd if=stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1 But since kernel 2.3.xx (I don't remember exactly), I got this error message when I try to do the second dd (even as root): dd: advancing past 1 blocks in output file `/dev/fd0': Permission denied And this thing works properly when under 2.2.xx... I try to look a the diff of floppy.c between 2.2.18 and 2.4.0 but at this time, I didn't find anything... -- Mathieu CHOUQUET-STRINGER E-Mail : mchouque@e-steel.com Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way. -- Alan J. Perlis - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/