On 2013-12-07 18:31, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2013-12-07 16:35 (GMT+0100) jdd composed:
That's not the problem. It is the bios having a floppy drive configured, even if there is none. Linux probes it... and fails, taking a long time about it.
never seen a floppy configured when there is none (and when there where nver one)
Lots of inept motherboard BIOS exist that on reset (e.g. battery gone dead) enable floppy regardless whether one is present.
The vmplayer "firmware" has this problem. When you create a virtual machine, you get a floppy. You remove it from the list of hardware devices, but if you enter the bios setup, there is the floppy defined. It is usually on the first page.
I beg nobody tested this before release :-)
If you meant "bet", you lose. 17 month old bug with 6 dupes: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058
Ha! -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 12.3 x86_64 "Dartmouth" at Telcontar)