On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 08:09:57 -0500 "Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sunday 08 February 2004 02:45 am, Guy Rouillier wrote: ->I just got a new laptop that has no floppy. With both Mandrake 9.2 ->32-bit and the AMD64 beta, every time they boot they print out an insmod->error during "checking for new hardware" because the box has no floppy->disk drive. Everything appears to work fine, so the message is just->a minor irritation. How can I tell the kernel not to look for a floppy->during bootup? The only mention I could find of a floppy in startup->config files was ide-floppy in devfsd(not booted at the moment, I think->that was it.) Can I simply remove that? Thanks.
Not only the kernel will gave you this error message: lauch DrakConf *from a terminal*, give the root passwoed and you will see in the terminal 2 or three times this message. This does not have any consequence except that it take a few seconds to fail each time it try to load the floppy module. The easier workaround I have found is to insert the following line
insmod floppy /bin/false
in /etc/modules.conf
This will cause the inserting of floppy to fail immediatly (you will see that DrakConf, for example, start much faster).
You could disable this message by inserting "insmod floppy /bin/true" insted of "insmod floppy /bin/false" in /etc/modules.conf. Howhever if you do this the system will still try to insert the floppy module without succeed but believing it has succeed. I wouldn't suggest you to do this.
If you've got everything else going the way that you want, why not just turn harddrake off under MCC -> services so it won't even check for new hardware?
I plug in a USB mouse and compact flash into the built-in memory card reader. If I don't leave harddrake active, those are not detected. I have done that on other installations though. Thanks for the idea.
(just don't forget to turn it back on if you do add new hardware)
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