Re: [Xen-devel] xen-1.2 again

[Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> system boots but has problems with /dev entries for fd0, cdrom etc
> (same thing that I see under Mandrake-9.1), keeps on saying that
> it not a block special device (ls -l /dev/fd0 does the entry with
> b in forst column).

Xen currently doesn't support floppy drives -- I didn't know
anyone still uses them! This will be rather easier to fix in the
new IO world (1.4).

CDROMs should work, but without modifying devfs you'll probably
need to access it via its hardware device name e.g. /dev/hdc or
similar.

Best,
Ian


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