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

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Tim Wunder (Lists) <tim at thewunders.org> wrote:
> 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)?

None of my systems have a floppy drive, and none of them exhibit this
behavior (they're a mix of F11 & F12).

How long is a "great deal of time"?
Is the floppy controller enabled in the SBIOS?
What exactly appears on the screen when its looking for fd0 ?
Specifically which kernel version are you using?



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