From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 16 12:49:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA26679 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 12:49:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA26656 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 12:49:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA08961; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 12:48:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 12:48:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Gravel, Emmanuel (AZ77)" cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Floppy won't mount anymore In-Reply-To: <417E587B9C99D111A1010000F803B7CE4DD82E@az77-revere.bcasd.az.honeywell.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Gravel, Emmanuel (AZ77) wrote: > Yesterday, I had modified my fstab to show /dev/fd0.1440 > as being an msdos floppy, read/write, 0 and 0 (didn't do > an noauto at first). It mounted properly and I was able > to retrieve the files from one of my disks. I shutdown > without umounting the drive and I kept the line in the > fstab (still without the noauto option). Barf. That means you have to have a disk in the drive at boot or the boot will fall over. Don't do that, use noauto. Dunno about your other problems; did you try cold booting the machine? Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message