fail to mount LS120 drive
Quoted 9 lines · Einar Saltnes
Hi,
I'm trying to mount the LS120 drive on BigSur, but fail getting the following message:[root@scali9-12 linux-2.4.0-test10]# mount
/mnt/floppy/dev/hdb1: Invalid argument
mount:/dev/hdb1has wrong major or minor numberSame result with floppy and LS120 floppy.
If you don't have a partitioned floppy, just mount the raw device, i.e.:
mount /dev/hdb -t <filesystem type> /mnt/floppy
Bill
Quoted 2 lines · Francis Galiegue
If not, what does a fdisk -l
/dev/hdbgive on an LS120 floppy? And in general, can LS120 floppies be partitioned? I doubt it...
Yes, they can be. It's kind of odd, but it's necessary if you want to use the same boot image for a disk and for the CD (unless you try and fit an ia64 boot image into a normal floppy size, which would be rather tight.)
Bill
Quoted 8 lines · Bill Nottingham
If you don't have a partitioned floppy, just mount the raw device, i.e.:
mount
/dev/hdb-t <filesystem type>/mnt/floppyBill
Thank you, it worked as expected. Now, over to the BIOS upgrade...
Einar
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Bill Nottingham <[email protected]> writes:
|> Francis Galiegue ([email protected]) said: |> > If not, what does a fdisk -l /dev/hdb give on an LS120 floppy? And in general, |> > can LS120 floppies be partitioned? I doubt it... |> |> Yes, they can be. It's kind of odd, but it's necessary if |> you want to use the same boot image for a disk and for |> the CD (unless you try and fit an ia64 boot image into |> a normal floppy size, which would be rather tight.)
What's wrong with just copying the files to the floppy? There is no requirement that the boot floppy has a particular size.
Andreas.
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