Floppy causing kernel to die?

MasterRa · Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2002 4:22 pm Post subject: Floppy causing kernel to die?

I have gotten gentoo installed completely, and rebooted, and the kernel uncompresses and everything is going fine utnil it says something about the floppy drive being fd0, and then it just hangs.

Could it be cuz i have no floppy? And can i turn off floppy support in the kernel, maybe?

Thanks
-MasterRa

rommel · Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2002 4:35 pm Post subject:

you can boot from the install cd to re-enter your system...then rebuild your kernel and leave the floppy driver out...i have never tried booting without a floppy but this might help....grub sometimes has issues when no floppy is present but looks like you past that if the kernel is hanging.

MasterRa · Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2002 4:47 pm Post subject:

Alright. Thanks. I'm compiling a vanilla kernel now (i was using the gentoo-sources before) but i couldn't find where the floppy dirver is at in the menuconfig

MasterRa · Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2002 5:21 pm Post subject:

Alright, i just compiled a vanilla kernel with minimal stuff and it booted fine.. so it's not the floppy.. i'll fiddle with it and get the stuff i need compiled in..