howto disable floppy drive

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 02:39:56PM +0200, Roberto Felloni wrote:
> I have a big problem on boot.
> My server, after runs services, before graphical login, 
> show me black screen, led of hdd turn off, and make nothing 
> until 3-5 minutes ... 
> and I don't understand what's happen !!!
> 
> On messages log there are some lines than executes their job employing 
> 3 or 5 minutes.
> 
> -----------------------------------------
> Jun 17 23:53:01 bear crond(pam_unix)[2799]: session opened for user
> root by (uid=0)
> Jun 17 23:53:01 bear fstab-sync[2798]: added mount point /media/cdrom
> for /dev/hdb
> Jun 17 23:53:01 bear crond(pam_unix)[2799]: session closed for user root
> Jun 17 23:53:06 bear fstab-sync[2875]: added mount point /media/floppy
> for /dev/fd0
> Jun 17 23:55:01 bear crond(pam_unix)[2898]: session opened for user
> root by (uid=0)
> Jun 17 23:55:04 bear crond(pam_unix)[2898]: session closed for user root
> Jun 17 23:58:38 bear gdm(pam_unix)[2812]: session opened for user root
> by (uid=0)
> -------------------------------------------
> 
> At first time I have turned off crond service, to try better startup
> and target the problem,
> but the time of boot aren't better than previous.
> 
> Now I wanna try to disable mounting of floppy drive.
> >From here my request to mailinglist.
> 
> some proposal ?
> 
> thanks for your interest.
> (sorry for the ignorance: I'm a Windoze user during day and Linux for
> my free time).
> 
>From the messages above I see that it created the mount points
/media/cdrom and /media/floppy. I see no evidence that it tried to
mount either  device. I think your slow boot must be caused by
something else.

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