AMD64's SMP kernel lacks CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y/m, so during the LiveCD install one can't mount the floppy to grab, for example, network drivers. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot smp with amd64's livecd 2. zcat /proc/config.gz |grep -i dev_fd 3. mkdir /mnt/floppy && mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy Actual Results: fd0 doesn't exist. Expected Results: Mounted the floppy into /mnt/floppy It's an easy fix, just needed to have attention brought to it. (Recompile the amd64's SMP kernel on LiveCD)
if this is still an issue with 2004.3, feel free to reopen
This is still an issue with install-x86-minimal-2004.3-r1.iso , just like Nicholas I need to grap some files not present on the livecd. I'm not able te re-open this bug, could you please re-open this.
Forgot to mention, on the 2004.2 livecd /dev/fd0 worked without problems when booting the 2.4 kernel, with the 2.6 kernel on 2004.2 /dev/fd0 didn't work either.
Did you load the floppy module?
ouch, this is painful, I was so spoiled by the automatically loading of the floppy module from previous livecds that I even didn't consider the most obvious thing to do, after manually loading the floppy modules everything worked perfect, are you planning to restore the "floppy magic" on the next release?
Actually, no. Since we are now using udev and devfs. It was devfs that was loading the module. Gentoo is moving away from devfs completely, as it will be removed from 2.6 kernels by 2005.1's release.