Wrong Major or Minor number error message when mounting Floppy Drive

[Guest_imported]

This is the message I get when I try to mount the floppy drive with this Command in Red Hat Linux 6.2:
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

fstab file entry:

/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto,user 0 0

Don't know what else to check?
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[mregan]

Looks like you are trying to change the mount options from those in fstab. Since /mnt/floppy is defined in fstab the correct command should be:

mount /mnt/floppy

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[Guest_imported]

Thanks for the suggestion but that command didn't work either. Ended up installing Linux Mandrake instead everything was easy to install and everything worked.

 

[Guest_imported]

Hi I've got a similar problem . I'm running RH 6.2 and recently i installed kernel 2.4.1 . ( previously i was using 2.2.14-50
Problem it's that after installing the new kernel i cannot mount anymore the fat32 partition.
Everytime I receive a message like:
&quot; /dev/hda1 has a wrong major or minor number &quot;
I tried to make the dev file again with:
&quot;rm /dev/hda1,
mknod -m 666 /dev/hda1 b 3 1&quot; and then to remount;
the same problem.
I tried with other kernels as well.
no result.
So if someone knows how to resolve this please help me.
sharkyyo@yahoo.com