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Re: Fixing md_root.c to unbusy bp buffer



On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 6:55 AM, David Ross <dross%pobox.com@localhost> wrote:
> Yes, I did succeed loading sysinst with your patched kernel and the md2a
> device.  So I _think_ I could probably mount floppies from /dev/md2a instead
> of /dev/fd0 but I'm not positive.  (Why would they have two separate devices
> if they're exactly the same anyway?)  So I'd lean towards not removing fd0
> unless there is a real reason to do so, but that's just going on intuition.

Good, I think that md2a device is used only as a ramdisk, so it should
be perfectly
correct to use fd0 for mounting floppies.

-Tuomo


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