Why does the kernel spend so much time looking for fd0 at bootup?

[Tim Wunder (Lists)]

When rebooting this F11 system, the kernel spends a great deal of time
looking for a non-existent fd0. Is there any way to get it to stop doing
that (without recompiling the kernel, that is)?

Tim

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