🚀 go-pugleaf

simc@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Simon Chin) writes:

>Tonight I took out my old 200MB hard drive and put in
>an 850 MB hard drive, and I also took out
>my 1.2MB floppy drive. I left my 1.44MB drive in.

>I tried to boot linux off my linux boot disk.
>The first bit loaded ok, and then it prompted
>for the root disk. I put it in and then I got
>this error message 
>"perpendicular drive not supported FDC"

Sounds like you are using one of those goofy BIOS hacks^H^H^H^H^H features
that allows you to "exchange" A: and B: drives. Well don't. They are just
that -- a hack to the BIOS floppy INT service routine.

The BIOS loads the boot disk, which is why that works, but the loading of 
the rootdisk is actually done by the linux kernel floppy driver, and it
goes looking for /dev/fd0 which physically doesn't exist. Hence the error
message (albeit a misleading one).

So pop the lid again and put your 1.44 on the end of the cable with the 
twists in the middle of the ribbon.

Paul.