Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Dec 2003 17:41:47 +0100 | From | Petr Vandrovec <> | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: floppy motor spins when floppy module not installed |
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On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 05:27:45PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote: > Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz> writes: > > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 04:33:57PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote: > >> > >> I'm running 2.6.0-test11 on a machine with modular floppy driver, > >> without any spinning motors. I think it boots from floppy before HD, > >> but I'm not certain (can't check right now). > > > > Maybe because you run patched LILO which works around this 2.6.x > > GRUB, actually. Does it mess with the floppy drive?
AFAIK yes:
NEWS:
New in 0.5 - 1998-08-20, Erich Boleyn:
* GRUB now shuts off the floppy before transferring control to any other programs/modules/loaders. (chain-loading doesn't matter here, just loading 32-bit modules/kernels)
stage2/asm.S:
/* * stop_floppy() * * Stops the floppy drive from spinning, so that other software is * jumped to with a known state. */ ENTRY(stop_floppy) movw $0x3F2, %dx xorb %al, %al outb %al, %dx ret
Petr Vandrovec
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