[Linux-ia64] Re: fail to mount LS120 drive

[Linux-ia64] Re: fail to mount LS120 drive

[Bill Nottingham]

Einar Saltnes (eisa@scali.no) said: 
> Hi,
> I'm trying to mount the LS120 drive on BigSur, but fail getting
> the following message:
> 
> [root@scali9-12 linux-2.4.0-test10]# mount /mnt/floppy
> /dev/hdb1: Invalid argument
> mount: /dev/hdb1 has wrong major or minor number
> 
> Same result with floppy and LS120 floppy.

If you don't have a partitioned floppy, just mount the raw
device, i.e.:

mount /dev/hdb -t <filesystem type> /mnt/floppy

Bill

[Linux-ia64] Re: fail to mount LS120 drive

[Bill Nottingham]

Francis Galiegue (fg@mandrakesoft.com) said: 
> If not, what does a fdisk -l /dev/hdb give on an LS120 floppy? And in general,
> can LS120 floppies be partitioned? I doubt it...

Yes, they can be. It's kind of odd, but it's necessary if
you want to use the same boot image for a disk and for
the CD (unless you try and fit an ia64 boot image into
a normal floppy size, which would be rather tight.)

Bill

[Linux-ia64] Re: fail to mount LS120 drive

[Einar Saltnes]

Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 
> If you don't have a partitioned floppy, just mount the raw
> device, i.e.:
> 
> mount /dev/hdb -t <filesystem type> /mnt/floppy
> 
> Bill
> 
Thank you, it worked as expected. Now, over to the BIOS upgrade...

Einar
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Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: fail to mount LS120 drive

[Andreas Schwab]

Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com> writes:

|> Francis Galiegue (fg@mandrakesoft.com) said: 
|> > If not, what does a fdisk -l /dev/hdb give on an LS120 floppy? And in general,
|> > can LS120 floppies be partitioned? I doubt it...
|> 
|> Yes, they can be. It's kind of odd, but it's necessary if
|> you want to use the same boot image for a disk and for
|> the CD (unless you try and fit an ia64 boot image into
|> a normal floppy size, which would be rather tight.)

What's wrong with just copying the files to the floppy?  There is no
requirement that the boot floppy has a particular size.

Andreas.

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