[SWLUG] hot swappable floppy/cd drive

[Tim Bonnell]

I have just received a couple of new DELL optiplex sx270 machines to test,
so obviously I wiped the pre-installed hard drive, and installed Linux (SuSE
8.1pro).

The problem I have is that these machines come with a swapable floppy / CD /
CD-RW drive. When the system boots it detects the CD, but I then want to
write to a floppy (to install grub) but the kernel says that /dev/fd0 isnt a
proper device.

Do I need to load a kernel module, and if so, which one?

Until I get a grub floppy written I am not going to be able to boot with the
floppy installed.

Anybody know what I'm talking about?

Regards,	Tim

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