Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Jan 2004 21:50:05 +0200 | From | Ville Herva <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.0 under vmware ? |
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On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 11:30:03AM -0800, you [Stephen Hemminger] wrote: > > > > Turns out the second floppy drive was disabled from the bios. > > > > Oddly, 2.2 and 2.4 don't care. > > > > If I turn the second drive on from the bios, 2.6 finds it, too. > > Probably because 2.6 uses ACPI and 2.2/2.4 were not.
Sounds reasonable.
However, booting with "acpi=off" doesn't dig up /dev/fd1. Perhaps ACPI should be compiled out for good, but this really isn't a large problem for me as long as the drive works when enabled in BIOS.
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