Re: dd and kernel 2.4

[Jim Meyering]

Thanks for the report.
That's fixed in the latest test release.
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/fileutils-4.0.35.tar.gz

It's fixed in 4.0.33, too.

Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer <address@hidden> wrote:
| I had this question on lkml and I thought it could be a good idea for you
| to know the problem I discovered.
| I have attached my mail and those from Alan Cox and Alexander Viro about
| this problem.
|
|      Thank for your efforts...
|
| From: address@hidden (Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer)
| Subject: Floppy disk strange behavior
| Newsgroups: e-steel.mailing-lists.linux.linux-kernel
| Date: 9 Jan 2001 15:36:57 -0500
| Organization: e-STEEL Netops news server
|
|
|       Hi!
|
| I have switched a long time ago to linux-2.4 (and even 2.3 series) and I
| have a wierd problem.
| I use GRUB to boot my system. Basically, when you want to install GRUB on a
| floppy disk, you do that:
|
| dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1
| dd if=stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1
|
| But since kernel 2.3.xx (I don't remember exactly), I got this error
| message when I try to do the second dd (even as root):
| dd: advancing past 1 blocks in output file `/dev/fd0': Permission denied
|
| And this thing works properly when under 2.2.xx...