RE: Ubuntu mad about no floppy?

Tsk, Tsk, royce...

more /usr/src/linux/Documentation/floppy.txt
...

<snip>
flopy=3D<drive>,<type>,cmos

      drive=3D0 (0,1 =3D a,b)
      type=3D16 (unknown or not installed)

supposedly, anyway, since reading the source

more /usr/src/linux/drivers/block/floppy.c

shows that there are 31 types, and that type 0 is 'none/null'

You do have the floppy disabled in BIOS, right?

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> On Behalf Of Royce Williams
> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 8:30 AM
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> Subject: Ubuntu mad about no floppy?
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> I'm experiencing this oddity/bug during the kernel load when=20
> booting from the Ubuntu 7.04 Workstation install CD on my=20
> Inspiron 3800:
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/casper/+bug/97306
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> The error is:
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> end_request: I/O error, device fd0, sector 0
> Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0
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> It does eventually time out, but I think that it's=20
> interfering with my install, which is going phenomenally slowly.
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> Does anyone know how to tell the installer CD kernel to not=20
> probe for the floppy, or have any other ideas about what I could try?
>=20
> Royce
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