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Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 00:15:16 -0500
From: Pete Toscano <pete.lkml@toscano.org>
To: Thomas Molina <tmolina@home.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.1ac17 hang on mounting loopback fs
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Excellent!  Thanks, that worked.

pete

On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Thomas Molina wrote:

> On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Pete Toscano wrote:
>=20
> > reading this, I see now why mkbootdisk was locking in the D state with
> > the loop mounted... Would this also explain not being able to seek
> > forward while writing a floppy?
> >
> > I was trying to make the GRUB boot disk by writing the stage 1 and 2
> > loaders to the floppy (as per the GRUB docs) with dd:
> >
> > [root@bubba grub]# dd of=3D/dev/fd0 if=3Dstage1 bs=3D512 count=3D1
> > 1+0 records in
> > 1+0 records out
> > [root@bubba grub]# dd of=3D/dev/fd0 if=3Dstage2 bs=3D512 seek=3D1
> > dd: advancing past 1 blocks in output file `/dev/fd0': Permission denied
>=20
> Different problem.  Add conv=3Dnotrunc to the dd command to make it work.
>=20

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