Re: [newbie] insmod reports error because no floppy
Guy Rouillier wrote: Olivier Esser wrote: Guy Rouillier wrote: 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 I tried this with Mandrake 9.2. Unfortunately it did not work for me. I got this during bootup: modprobe: modprobe: Invalid line in /etc/modules.conf ^Iinsmod I don't have a control I at the beginning of the line, so I don't know why it is reporting that. And once this error occurs, all my other filesystems are no longer mountable. Is there something else I need to be doing? Ouups... the line to insert in /etc/modules.conf is: install floppy /bin/false Sorry for the inconvenience. I have writen my e-mail too fast. For your information, this line tell modprobe to use the command /bin/false instead of the command insmod to install the floppy module. /bin/false is a command which do nothing but which fail to do it (sorry for being a bit vague). As I told previously you will still get error message but the system won't wast time to fail anymore. Writing /bin/true instead of /bin/false will disable the error messages but I think it won't be a good idea to do it since maybe some program have to know that the access of the floppy has failed. Olivier Esser Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] insmod reports error because no floppy
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. 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) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ -- Guy Rouillier Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] insmod reports error because no floppy
Guy Rouillier wrote: 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) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] insmod reports error because no floppy
On Sunday 08 February 2004 08:51 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote: -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. You should be able to setup those up with no need for detection though. I've got a 64mb USB device that I plug in, it has an icon assigned to it on my KDE desktop and it works without harddrake being active. Of course, I've got supermount disabled, and all my removables are like that, so that might make a difference. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] insmod reports error because no floppy
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. 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? (just don't forget to turn it back on if you do add new hardware) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
