Floppy problem 2-1.36 - 2.1.46

Dietmar Kling (s_dkling@student.uni-ulm.de)
Sun, 20 Jul 1997 14:43:47 +0200

I waited for reporting this problem because i thought it was a bad floppy disc
but now i am sure that there is a problem in the kernel

I've got a old pentium 60 with a 8 MB

and after compiling the kernel and trying to copy the zImage on the boot disc
i always get

minitiger:/usr/src/linux # cp arch/i386/boot/zImage /dev/fd0
cp: /dev/fd0: No space left on device

->sometimes it copies to the disc in a endless loop (run i half an hour before i lost my nerves)

sometimes the kernel reports that it can't find /dev/fd0 (NEW: only 2.1.45 maybe 2.1.46 )

---> if you do the cp a second time than it works (without any message) ?????????


So what now?

Dietmar