Bug 58688 – /dev/fd0 doesn't exist.

• Product: Gentoo Release Media
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description Nicholas Wheeler 2004-07-28 12:05:32 UTC]

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)

[Comment 1 Simon Stelling (RETIRED) 2004-11-30 03:04:26 UTC]

if this is still an issue with 2004.3, feel free to reopen

[Comment 2 John Herdy 2005-01-18 03:50:38 UTC]

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.

[Comment 3 John Herdy 2005-01-18 04:21:12 UTC]

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.

[Comment 4 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-01-18 06:43:38 UTC]

Did you load the floppy module?

[Comment 5 John Herdy 2005-01-18 16:45:38 UTC]

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?

[Comment 6 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-01-18 18:50:10 UTC]

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.