Bug 46975 – LiveCD kernel does not recognize floppy

• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
• Product: Gentoo Release Media

[Description Christopher Rinderspacher 2004-04-06 10:09:43 UTC]

Booting the universal livecd for amd64 on an ASUS K8V Deluxe does not recognize the floppy as a block device (no floppy support in kernel?)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Insert LiveCD
2. Boot
3. cat /proc/devices or mkdir /mnt/floppy && mount /dev/floppy/0 /mnt/floppy or ls /dev/fd*
Actual Results:  
fd is not listed as block device in /proc/devices.
The mount command returns no such block device.
ls does not show any fd*.

Expected Results:  
fd as block device.
mount the floppy in the drive.
list /dev/fd0

[Comment 1 Benjamin Judas (RETIRED) 2004-04-06 12:03:05 UTC]

Support for floppy drives should be compiled as modules. Can you try to load them manually ?

[Comment 2 Jason Huebel (RETIRED) 2004-04-16 13:14:12 UTC]

You need to load the ide-floppy module... This works for me.

[Comment 3 Ben Peddell 2004-10-12 16:42:00 UTC]

Load ide-floppy?! That's meant for drives such as LS-120 IDE Floppy drives.
Question: Which kernels have the ACPI floppy patch. There's a typo in it preventing it from working. The typo is using `== 0' instead of `< 0'
If the kernel on the LiveCD uses the ACPI floppy patch, then it won't recognize the floppy drive since the success is interpreted as a failure.

[Comment 4 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-10-12 17:25:50 UTC]

I think he meant just the floppy module, not ide-floppy.  Though in his case he might have an ide-floppy (I do, actually).