Re: Floppy IO Errors

On Friday 31 August 2007 04:01:25 Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:

I am trying to load a kernel module from a floppy disk (ms dos formatted).

Is there anything "special" I have to do to format these disks, or make
them readable? I can boot from an MS DOS startup disk (as generated by
XP) but BSD returns an IO error when trying to read any floppy. I've
tried multiple drives, cables, and disks.

I don't see the relevance of the boot stage here, but if you wanna load a
kernel module from a floppy:
# mount_msdosfs /dev/fdc0 /mnt
# sysctl kern.module_path="/boot/kernel;/boot/modules;/mnt"
# kldload mymodulename

/dev/fdc0 being your floppy drive device.
--
Mel
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