From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 06:33:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 06:33:57 -0400 Received: from harpo.it.uu.se ([130.238.12.34]:7628 "EHLO harpo.it.uu.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 06:33:56 -0400 Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 12:33:57 +0200 (MET DST) From: Mikael Pettersson Message-Id: <200206221033.MAA15741@harpo.it.uu.se> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, wli@holomorphy.com Subject: Re: [BUG] floppy requests Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 16:04:17 -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >So I ran grub to try to install it on a disk to boot elsewhere. Lo >and behold, the legendary robustness of floppy handling bursts forth: > >On 2.5.24 > >Cheers, >Bill > >generic_make_request: Trying to access nonexistent block-device fd(2,0) (0) >Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 000000a0 Search the LKML archives, keyword floppy. Floppies work in raw mode with a patch, but FS access to mounted floppies will hang your kernel or destroy data.