* Marc Haber <mh+0523mail@zugschlus.de> [20060622 07:15]: > On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 12:09:33AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > On Tuesday 20 June 2006 23:32, Marc Haber wrote: > > > No, the notebook does not have a floppy drive. It has a floppy LED > > > though. > > Huh? Then how the hell does the kernel manage to make the floppy light > > light up? I suspect that your hardware does support a floppy device to > > some extend and that that confuses the kernel, causing it to retry and > > thus the delay. > Yes. Looks the same way like standard desktops which all support > floppy drives but do not have one connected. ACK > > I'd say this is a kernel bug. Anyway, something we cannot solve in the > > installer so if you want to follow up on this, I suggest you do so > > separately (probably with upstream kernel people). > Actually, this sounds like an issue I have with the grml live CD on > some systems where the behavior can be fixed by calling the special > option "noautoconfig" when booting. Maybe you can ask Mika Prokop > about what this option actually does. Ccing him on this issue. noautoconfig disables a check while booting in userland at the grml system. What I'm doing there is: * check for existence of /dev/fd0; if it exits: * run 'if dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/null bs=512 count=1', if successful: * run blkid to identify devices with a specific label (GRMLCFG) noautoconfig disables this check at all. Booting grml on a system with a fd-connector but no fd present at all provides the following syslog entry: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 which I could also find in #373594. Marc, does the same behaviour (hanging for ~2 min) occur on harddisk installation or is it just at d-i? IMHO this looks like an userland application is trying to access /dev/fd0 several times (as the 'end_request: I/O error...' is present several times). This usually happens when scanning for disks/partitions/... Might this be the case, Frans? HTH && regards, -mika- -- ,'"`. http://www.michael-prokop.at/ ( grml.org -» Linux Live-CD for texttool-users and sysadmins `._,' http://www.grml.org/
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