From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 20 11:30:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt014nb6.san.rr.com (dt014nb6.san.rr.com [24.30.129.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 807DB15BE7 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 11:30:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by dt014nb6.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA03816; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 11:30:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 11:30:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug X-Sender: doug@dt014nb6.san.rr.com To: Gunnar Flygt Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: 3.2 panic when dd-ing to floppy In-Reply-To: <19990920194725.A68736@sr.se> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Gunnar Flygt wrote: > Today I got disappointed for the first time, after having used FreeBSD > since almost two years now. I was making disks for the upgrade: > dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/fd0 > I had forgot to open the write protection on the floppy, and 3.2-RELEASE > whent totally mad trying to push the floppy drive out of the computer, > and then panic'ing > > Should it be like this? ;-) This has come up before. The answer has always been, "No, it shouldn't panic" followed by long and glorious debate on what it should or shouldn't do and why, followed by no actual changes being made. My suggestions is to try this again after your upgrade, and if it is still panic'ing to send a PR. Good luck, Doug -- "My mama told me, my mama said, 'don't cry.' She said, 'you're too young a man to have as many women you got.' I looked at my mother dear and didn't even crack a smile. I said, 'If women kill me, I don't mind dyin!'" - John Belushi as "Joliet" Jake Blues, "I Don't Know" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message