At the beginning of the installation there's only a:
mount /dev/fd0 /floppy -o ro > /dev/null 2>&1
you shouldn't see dozen of errors... if you see them, It's the kernel...
are you using UYOK in this case?
In my tests I never used machines with floppy and it just prints a quick
error... anyway the mount command is done to try to read the local.cfg
from a floppy, but IMHO we could consider this file deprecated... we can
simply add the local.cfg parameters in the kernel boot options, or not?
Regarding grub-install... well... it's a grub problem, a workaround
could be to remove fd0 from the device.map, but for that I think we need
to address the issue to the grub developers.
-Andrea
Mark Seger wrote:
> More info - I've tried manually running grub-install and it too is
> generating a lot of I/O errors on fd0. Is this something I just have to
> live with? It's really horrible...
> -mark
>
> Mark Seger wrote:
>
>> There's a section near the beginning of the installation that says
>> "checking for floppy diskette." I'm getting an I/O error, dev fdo,
>> sector 0 about ever 10 seconds and I'm sure it's because this system
>> doesn't have a floppy. If they're just warnings, and I think they
>> are, should there be a message to ignore the like the message that
>> says to ignore "wrong magic" errors? However, the real issues if
>> there are almost 2 dozen of these and they significantly slow down the
>> installation.
>>
>> Any way to reduce or maybe even eliminate the checks, or isn't this
>> under SI control?
>>
>> -mark
>>
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