Re: Shutdown Question

From: Me (jdangler_at_atlantic.net)
Date: 07/05/04 

Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2004 20:24:33 GMT

Thanks for the reply.
I checked lsmod and there isn't anything here that uses floppy. In fact,
I don't have a floppy drive on the system...
I looked at dmesg on startup and didn't see anything unusual (to me) in
there. I'll try again on a cold start and see if anything shows up.
I really appreciate the input. I'm new at this and have no other
resources other than these newsgroups.

Regards,

John

On Sat, 03 Jul 2004 04:01:48 +0000,
Richard Huelbig wrote:

>
> Atlantic,
>
> Do you get any error messages during boot up? You can use the command
> dmesg to review the boot messages stored in the system's ring buffer (I
> think that's what they call it). Basically, typing dmesg will display
> all of the startup messages that you see displayed in rapid sequence
> during boot. If you see something amiss in there that's related to the
> floppy it might help you diagnose the problem. Also, if you're using the
> floppy during a logged in session, are you unmounting it before pressing
> the eject button? If not you may be damaging data stored on the floppy
> and I am guessing that you might also get some type of error message on
> shutdown.
>
> Anyway, just a few things to think about.
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Huelbig

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