From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Mark Seger
Sent: Mon 24/07/2006 14:44
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Sisuite-devel] what about systems with no floppy drives?
not doing anything with UYOK. I have been told by others
there's a
grub-install switch to tell it not to look for the floppy, might
that be
another potential switch for
systemconfigurator?
-mark
Andrea Righi wrote:
>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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