6.2 hangs probing floppy

[vittorio]

Before eliminating fdc from the kernel I add another piece of info.

If immediatedly after booting I put a floppy into the drive, the booting 
process goes on without problems. 

Any other. softer solution to tis problem.

Vittorio
Alle 17:51, martedì 30 gennaio 2007, Roland Smith ha scritto:
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 03:14:49PM +0100, Vittorio wrote:
> > I updated my pentium 3 PC Compaq Desktop 450 from freebsd 5.3 (which
> > was working like a charme indeed!) to the new 6.2 installing from a CD.
> >
> > It happens that the boot
> > 1) runs smoothly as usual till after the
> > probing of the CDs,
> > 2) then the boot hangs for about 3 minutes probing
> > the floppy (I see the floppy led turned on for the same time),
> > 3)
> > eventually again smoothly till the end of the booting process.
> >
> >  I
> > noticed that the /dev/fd0 device is not found and there's no way to
> > mount it.
>
> Build a kernel without "device fdc". Or maybe disable the floppy in the
> bios.
>
> Roland