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 >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Sisuite-devel mailing list Sisuite-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-devel
