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

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Tim Wunder (Lists) <tim at thewunders.org> wrote:
> On 12/27/2009 11:22 AM, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>> 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"?
>
> About a minute, which, in the grand scheme of things, isn't all that
> much time. But if you're waiting for a reboot to see if dhcpd starts
> this time, well, then it seems like forever ;)
>
>> Is the floppy controller enabled in the SBIOS?
>
> Not sure... I'll check that at next reboot. I thought of that as a
> possibility after sending my email.
>
>> What exactly appears on the screen when its looking for fd0 ?
>
> error message pertaining to fd0... I don't recall the specific wording.

If disabling in the SBIOS doesn't help, then the error is going to be important.

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