> On 07/21/2009 05:22 PM, James Cameron wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 05:07:56PM +1000, M Watts wrote:
>> On a fresh Fedora 11 install (HP nc8000 laptop, 1.6 Ghz Pentium M), the
>> Planet CCRMA kernel-rt-2.6.29.6-1.rt23.2.fc11.ccrma.i546.rt freezes on
>> boot with:
>>
>> Starting udev: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
>> Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0
> I'm inclined to think that this error (end_request, Buffer I/O) is quite
> normal for a laptop that presents a floppy drive to the kernel via the
> BIOS yet doesn't have one ...
Yes, and there's no option to disable it in BIOS. I never went further
with this last year, as I just tried another kernel.
But the problem recurred with my Fedora 13 install disc!
One solution is to add
floppy.allowed_drive_mask=0
to grub's kernel options :)
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