I also observed the message "error: fd0 read error." on my intel core duo laptop. I was also able to make it go away by disabling legacy FDD emulation in the BIOS. (In my Toshiba QOSMIO BIOS, the entry is "USB- FDD Legacy Emulation". No floppy is connected.)
I confirmed that the message was being generated by grub2 by changing the message string in disk/i386/pc/biosdisk.c and observing that the message changed. The presence of the message does not appear to delay or interfere with the presentation of the grub2 menu, which appears shortly afterward, and from which booting proceeds normally. System: Toshiba QOSMIO G35-AV650 Distro: Ubuntu 10.04 RC (upgraded from 9.10) Package: grub-pc 1.98-1ubuntu5 uname -a: Linux localhost 2.6.32-21-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 16 08:10:02 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux -- Error scanning for fd0 on boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/568720 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
