Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 17 Feb 2001 21:28:27 -0600 (CST) | From | Thomas Molina <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.1ac17 hang on mounting loopback fs |
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On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Pete Toscano wrote:
> 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=/dev/fd0 if=stage1 bs=512 count=1 > 1+0 records in > 1+0 records out > [root@bubba grub]# dd of=/dev/fd0 if=stage2 bs=512 seek=1 > dd: advancing past 1 blocks in output file `/dev/fd0': Permission denied
Different problem. Add conv=notrunc to the dd command to make it work.
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