On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 03:14:49PM +0100, Vittorio wrote: > I updated my pentium 3 PC Compaq Desktop 450 from freebsd 5.3 (which > was working like a charme indeed!) to the new 6.2 installing from a CD. > > It happens that the boot > 1) runs smoothly as usual till after the > probing of the CDs, > 2) then the boot hangs for about 3 minutes probing > the floppy (I see the floppy led turned on for the same time), > 3) > eventually again smoothly till the end of the booting process. > > I > noticed that the /dev/fd0 device is not found and there's no way to > mount it.
Build a kernel without "device fdc". Or maybe disable the floppy in the bios. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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