From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 27 11: 4:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu [128.226.1.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9367037B65B for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 11:04:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu) Received: from sol.cs.binghamton.edu (sol.cs.binghamton.edu [128.226.123.100]) by bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA24557; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 14:04:39 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 14:04:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang To: Mark Hendriks Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Configure floppy on 4.0-release In-Reply-To: <00042712091200.00374@mymachine.imag.net> 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 Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Mark Hendriks wrote: > On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > When I do "mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy" under 4.0-Release, it responds > > "device not configured". I tried the old trick as follows, they won't > > work: > > > > (1) During boot up, I hit spacebar to bring the loader menu: > > > > ok boot -c > > .... > > cconfig> en fdc0 > > > > (2) Edit the file /boot/kern.conf to add the following line: > > > > en fdc0 > > > > What is the problem? Thanks for any help. > > If you've altered your kernel configuration from GENERIC, you may want to > check that file also. You really shouldn't have to do any other > configuration for a floppy if it's included in the kernel, and you really > shouldn't need the above line in your kern.conf file. Check for typos, and > compare what you've got to the appropriate line in the LINT file. > The problem is that I connected the IDE cable incorrectly. It is not a problem of FreeBSD. Thanks. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message