Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:28:07 +0200 From: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Floppy IO Errors Message-ID: <200708311428.07247.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> In-Reply-To: <20070830215924.F18579@prime.gushi.org> References: <20070830215924.F18579@prime.gushi.org>
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On Friday 31 August 2007 04:01:25 Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > I am trying to load a kernel module from a floppy disk (ms dos formatted). > > Is there anything "special" I have to do to format these disks, or make > them readable? I can boot from an MS DOS startup disk (as generated by > XP) but BSD returns an IO error when trying to read any floppy. I've > tried multiple drives, cables, and disks. I don't see the relevance of the boot stage here, but if you wanna load a kernel module from a floppy: # mount_msdosfs /dev/fdc0 /mnt # sysctl kern.module_path="/boot/kernel;/boot/modules;/mnt" # kldload mymodulename /dev/fdc0 being your floppy drive device. -- Mel
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