(unused) floppy drive kernel errors

[Andy Green]

Somebody in the thread at some point said:

> I get the message when a kernel is installed and the floppy drive is
> empty.  But on subsequent days my logs do not show I/O errors.

Yes I noticed that mkinitrd (executed as part of the kernel package
install) goes and touches any floppy... I guess maybe it is figuring out
what modules need to be in the initrd.

-Andy