Floppy IO Errors

[Mel]

On Friday 31 August 2007 04:01:25 Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:

> I am trying to load a kernel module from a floppy disk (ms dos formatted).
>
> Is there anything "special" I have to do to format these disks, or make
> them readable?  I can boot from an MS DOS startup disk (as generated by
> XP) but BSD returns an IO error when trying to read any floppy.  I've
> tried multiple drives, cables, and disks.

I don't see the relevance of the boot stage here, but if you wanna load a 
kernel module from a floppy:
# mount_msdosfs /dev/fdc0 /mnt
# sysctl kern.module_path="/boot/kernel;/boot/modules;/mnt"
# kldload mymodulename

/dev/fdc0 being your floppy drive device.
-- 
Mel