Re: Ubuntu mad about no floppy?

Royce,

I found this in the kernel Documentation/floppy.txt....maybe this will help.

floppy=<drive>,<type>,cmos
        Sets the CMOS type of <drive> to <type>. This is mandatory if
        you have more than two floppy drives (only two can be
        described in the physical CMOS), or if your BIOS uses
        non-standard CMOS types. The CMOS types are:

                0 - Use the value of the physical CMOS
                1 - 5 1/4 DD
                2 - 5 1/4 HD
                3 - 3 1/2 DD
                4 - 3 1/2 HD
                5 - 3 1/2 ED
                6 - 3 1/2 ED
               16 - unknown or not installed

Mike B.

Quoting Royce Williams <royce@alaska.net>:

> I'm experiencing this oddity/bug during the kernel load when booting
> from the Ubuntu 7.04 Workstation install CD on my Inspiron 3800:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/casper/+bug/97306
>
> The error is:
>
> end_request: I/O error, device fd0, sector 0
> Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0
>
> It does eventually time out, but I think that it's interfering with my
> install, which is going phenomenally slowly.
>
> Does anyone know how to tell the installer CD kernel to not probe for
> the floppy, or have any other ideas about what I could try?
>
> Royce
>
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Received on Mon Aug 27 13:01:29 2007