Almost a me too:
On a Compaq Armada 1750 with 2.4.3-20mdk (as installed from Mandrake 8.0):
dd if=/boot/grub/stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1
reports back: dd: /dev/fd0: Invalid argument
On the same laptop with 2.4.11-pre5 the same command barfs with:
dd: /dev/fd0: Permission denied
On a P180 w/ 2.4.10-pre13: dd: /dev/fd0: Permission denied
In the first kernel the floppy driver is compiled as a module.
Without the seek=1 (or whatever number there) it works in all cases.
I thought it was something that had to do with my drives but seeing
your report makes me wonder. Perhaps sombody more knowledgeable can
comment...
-K.
On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Klaus Dittrich wrote:
>
> dd and mkfs works with 2.4.3 but not with 2.4.11.x or 2.4.10.x
>
> dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=1024k or mkfs /dev/sdb3
> both fail with "File size limit exceeded"
>
> Booting the same system with 2.4.3 or 2.2.19 anything
> works as expected.
>
> So is the problem with the kernel (as I assume) or do I miss something ?
>
> Can anyone else please verify this ?
>
> (One really needs two disks, dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null does not show
> the problem)
>
> --
> Best regards
> Klaus Dittrich
>
> e-mail: kladit@t-online.de
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