Re: what did hwinfo do to my machine?
On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 17:10:26 -0700, owens wrote:
>> (GRUB takes about 8 seconds between displaying the the "Welcome to
>> GRUB!" text and the "error: fd0 read error."
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> (...)
>
> Well, that error can be relevant.
>
> Try to disable the floppy disk controller (or any other FDD related
> stuff you find) from the BIOS and see what happens.
>
> I have seen such a behavior before when the BIOS boot sequence was
> erroneously configured to boot from floppy before the HDD
But having the floppy disk set as the first boot device at the BIOS is
not an error... in fact, I have all of my systems setup in that way (fdd
→ optical drive → hdd) ;-)
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
Reply to: