Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261152AbUAETuV (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2004 14:50:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264944AbUAETuU (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2004 14:50:20 -0500 Received: from twilight.cs.hut.fi ([130.233.40.5]:43849 "EHLO twilight.cs.hut.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261152AbUAETuM (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2004 14:50:12 -0500 Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 21:50:05 +0200 From: Ville Herva To: Stephen Hemminger Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , jfbeam@bluetronic.net Subject: Re: 2.6.0 under vmware ? Message-ID: <20040105195004.GH11115091@niksula.cs.hut.fi> Mail-Followup-To: Ville Herva , Stephen Hemminger , Linux Kernel Mailing List , jfbeam@bluetronic.net References: <1073297203.12550.30.camel@bip.parateam.prv> <20040105142032.GE11115091@niksula.cs.hut.fi> <20040105185506.GF11115091@niksula.cs.hut.fi> <20040105113003.1bf558b7.shemminger@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040105113003.1bf558b7.shemminger@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 799 Lines: 25 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. -- v -- v@iki.fi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/