Re: 2.6.0 under vmware ?

[Ville Herva]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 11:30:03AM -0800, you [Stephen Hemminger] wrote:
> > 
> > Turns out the second floppy drive was disabled from the bios.
> > 
> > Oddly, 2.2 and 2.4 don't care.
> > 
> > If I turn the second drive on from the bios, 2.6 finds it, too.
> 
> Probably because 2.6 uses ACPI and 2.2/2.4 were not.

Sounds reasonable. 

However, booting with "acpi=off" doesn't dig up /dev/fd1. Perhaps ACPI
should be compiled out for good, but this really isn't a large problem for
me as long as the drive works when enabled in BIOS.


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