On 2017-09-08, Tony Montana <arfnok...@mail.com> wrote: >> The old behavior was that the kernel would wait after the "fdc0 ..." line >> until fd0 attaches. Now it does the waiting in the background and continues >> booting. I agree that it's a bit ugly, but it makes booting about 5 seconds >> faster. > > It's not just a bit ugly... It's horrible. It has to go. I'm surprised > noone has reverted this crazy change yet.
Disable the floppy drive controller in your VM config then. (I'd be surprised if you see this on a physical machine, I can't find any where this shows up, even back to the oldest x86 I have in production which is from 2002).