Hello Detlef, There is a simple fix really, the problem with some Thinkpad's is they have legacy floppy support enabled in the bios-settings, while there is no floppy in the machine. Just disable this in the bios, and the problem is solved after that. The boot time will then again be normal.
Best regs, Chris. 2010/3/24 Detlef Lechner <detlef.lech...@gmx.net> > I am affected too since I dist-upgraded to Lucid Beta 1. > '~$ uname -a; Linux T42 2.6.32-16-generic #25-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 9 16:33.52 > UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux' > I read in #49 "Fix Released". I oppose. This is no fix for me. > Please let me know what test results should I provide to help to get rid of > this bug. > > -- > Linux thinks there’s a floppy drive when there’s not. Probing slows down > bootup by almost a minute. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/384579 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of a duplicate bug. > -- Only two things in life are infinite: the stupidity of mankind, and the universe, and I'm not certain about the second one... -- Albert Einstein -- -- Linux thinks there’s a floppy drive when there’s not. Probing slows down bootup by almost a minute. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/384579 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
