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Loading Driver Disk from /dev/hdd??

Loading Driver Disk from /dev/hdd??

2006-03-23 - By Harrington, Todd

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Hello, I fixed my problem. When I added a floppy drive to my system
it showed up in the boot order (even thought I did not want to boot from it)
so I figured the system saw the floppy drive but once I saw RedHat asking me
for
/dev/hdd for my driver disk I looked at the Floppy Controller in the BIOS and it
was DISABLED! Since it was disabled, RedHat did not see a floppy so it
must have defaulted to /dev/hdd. I enabled the floppy controller and now
everything
works as expected.

Thanks for everyone's response.

- Todd

-- --Original Message-- --
From: redhat-install-list-bounces@(protected) [mailto:redhat-install-list
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Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 6:27 PM
To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
Subject: Re: Loading Driver Disk from /dev/hdd??

I had same problem with this option, I still don?t know how to solve it.

2006/3/22, Rick Stevens < rstevens@(protected)>:

On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 10:32 -0600, Harrington, Todd wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an Intel Server (Jarrell) with onboard SATA RAID (configured as a
mirror), along with a PC floppy and IDE CD-ROM. When I install RedHat
Enterprise Linux v3 from CD I choose "linux dd" at the "boot:" prompt. When it
prompts me "Do you have a driver disk?" (for my onboard SATA RAID) I answer YES
and it says loading driver from "/dev/hdd"??? Why is trying to load from /dev
/hdd? I want it to load from /dev/fd0. I have never seen this.

Please wrap your lines at 72 characters. Single line messages are very
difficult to read.

Are you certain it was trying to read /dev/hdd? Did the floppy light
come on? Are you certain the message wasn't "loading driver
FOR /dev/hdd"?

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- VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com -
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=078353112-23032006>Hello
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I fixed my problem. When I added a floppy drive to my system</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=078353112-23032006>it
showed up in the boot order (even thought I did not want to boot from
it)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=078353112-23032006>so I
figured the system saw the floppy drive but once I saw RedHat asking me for
</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=078353112-23032006>/dev/hdd for my driver disk I looked at the Floppy
Controller in the BIOS and it</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=078353112-23032006>was
DISABLED! Since it was disabled, RedHat did not see a floppy so it
</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=078353112-23032006>must
have defaulted to /dev/hdd. I enabled the floppy controller and now
everything</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=078353112-23032006>works
as expected.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=078353112-23032006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=078353112-23032006
>Thanks
for everyone's response.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=078353112-23032006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=078353112-23032006> - Todd</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
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redhat-install-list-bounces@(protected)
[mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces@(protected)]<B>On Behalf Of
</B>DUARDITO<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, March 22, 2006 6:27 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
Getting started with Red Hat Linux<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Loading Driver Disk
from /dev/hdd??<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>I had same problem with this option, I
still don?t know how to solve it.<BR><BR>
<DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>2006/3/22, Rick Stevens <<A
href="mailto:rstevens@(protected)">rstevens@(protected)</A>>:<
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,204) 1px solid">On
Wed, 2006-03-22 at 10:32 -0600, Harrington, Todd wrote:<BR>>
Hi,<BR>><BR>> I have an Intel Server (Jarrell) with onboard SATA RAID
(configured as a mirror), along with a PC floppy and IDE CD-ROM. When I
install RedHat Enterprise Linux v3 from CD I choose "linux dd" at the
"boot:" prompt. When it prompts me "Do you have a driver disk?" (for my
onboard SATA RAID) I answer YES and it says loading driver from
"/dev/hdd"??? Why is trying to load from /dev/hdd? I want it to load from
/dev/fd0. I have never seen this. <BR><BR>Please wrap your lines at 72
characters.  Single line messages are very<BR>difficult to
read.<BR><BR>Are you certain it was trying to read /dev/hdd?  Did
the floppy light<BR>come on?  Are you certain the message wasn't
"loading driver <BR>FOR
/dev/hdd"?<BR><BR>-- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
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