don't have a floppy, but kernel thinks so
Paul Morgan
paul.morgan at jumanjihouse.com
Tue Nov 11 01:58:54 UTC 2003
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 18:22, Mike Burger wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Brian Millett wrote:
>
> > Hello, I've installed fedora core on a toshiba satellite 1135-S155. Man
> > it works great. One problem I have is in the /var/log/messages I see
> > this references to a floppy:
> >
> > Nov 10 16:49:12 shaka kernel: inserting floppy driver for
> > 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl
> > Nov 10 16:49:15 shaka kernel: floppy0: no floppy controllers found
> > Nov 10 16:49:15 shaka insmod:
> > /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/kernel/drivers/block/floppy.o:
> > init_module: No such device
> > Nov 10 16:49:15 shaka insmod: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by
> > incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ
> > parameters. You may find more information in syslog or the output
> > from dmesg
> >
> > Now, there is not a floppy on this beast. How do I tell the kernel to
> > ignore the floppy?
>
> It's already doing so. It's trying to load the floppy driver, finding
> that there's no floppy controller, and abandoning it. It winds up not
> bothering, once it doesn't find it.
I second Brian's question. Is there a way to direct the kernel to NOT
try insmod'ing the floppy? I do not use floppy drives anymore and would
prefer to avoid the kernel complaints if possible.
tia,
-paul
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