Odd floppy behavior in 2.4.19-pre7-ac1

[Steve Kieu]

Hi,

I found the problem when building my own floppy boot
disks. I use syslinux build disk 1 using the kernel
and disk 2 the root file system, The kernel has
evrything needed (fd driver built in, etc..;) and
usally it works no problem until I use 2.4.19-pre7-ac1
today.

Put the disk1, boot, it loads the kernel, when it
finished loading from floppy, the light in the floppy
is off, If I remove the floppy and after finishing
everything, the light in the floppy drive lits again
the I saw the messeage like:  Floppy ... I/O error...,
then the light is off;  then it asks to insert the
root disk. I insert the root disk and everything goes
fine.

But if I still put the disk 1 in the drive, of course
no I/O error message. It still asks to insert the root
floppy after the light lits and off. I remove the
disk1 ; put the second one, It says: RAM disk image
found at .... (as usuall) but it only read the floppy
aout 2 seconds, then stop reading. The light nos is
off and the kernel just stay at this forever, no
panic, no ooop .......

In short if I remove disk 1 immediately after it
finished loading the kernel ; there will be an error
message that it can not read from floppy and ask to
insert the root disk, and it goes as normal.

If I remain the disk1 until the kernel asks me to put
the root floppy disk, no error message ; but the
kernel can not or never finish loading  the root disk.

Any one has the similar problem?

If more information ; pls email me

Regards,

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Steve Kieu

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