Hi,
Am 24.06.10 15:48, schrieb Alex Schuster:
The old grub sometimes paused for around a minute because it searched for
the floppy, the --no-floppy switch speeded this up.
hm, that is a really good point, I found in dmesg in in the logfile,
tones of the following lines:
Jun 24 06:54:42 idefix-pc kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
Jun 24 06:54:54 idefix-pc kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
Jun 24 06:55:06 idefix-pc kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
Jun 24 06:55:19 idefix-pc kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
Jun 24 06:55:19 idefix-pc kernel: Buffer I/O error on device fd0,
logical block 0
So it searches on the floppy and seems not to stop here after many hours
passed.
Regarding the grub-mkconfig man page there is no option available to
skip floppy check.
I will try at home if I can speed up the installation procedure with
--no-floppy.
Thanks for the tip.
Bye,
Matthias
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