'floppy0: probe failed...' ?

Todd Fries (tfries@umr.edu)
Fri, 20 Oct 1995 20:40:55 -0600 (CDT)


Um, this is very strange...I am trying to boot linux on this machine
and (obviously) I need a root filesystem...

I have a whole bunch of messages, in this pattern:

floppy0: probe failed...
[repeated 16x]
end_requist: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0
attempt to access beyond end of device
attempt to access beyond end of device
attempt to access beyond end of device
floppy0: probe failed...
end_requist: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0
...etc..
end_requist: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 2
...etc...
[and finally]
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 02:00

I have tried 1.2.1, 1.2.13, 1.3.31 compiled by myself,
to no avail.

Is there a problem with the floppy driver or the floppy?
(DOS, for what it's worth, accesses the floppy just fine...)
infact, rawrite wrote the whole image allright...
p-90, mach64, scsihd, ne2000...

-- 
Todd Fries...tfries@umr.edu
http://www.cs.umr.edu/~tfries