6.2 Hangs Probing Floppy During Boot

[Ivan Voras]

Tim Daneliuk wrote:

>   During the boot probe, FreeBSD 6.2 (Release or -STABLE) hangs for several minutes
>   while probing the floppy.  Eventually, it does get through it, but it takes
>   a loooong time.  Disabling the floppy in the machine BIOS makes the problem
>   go away because FBSD sees no floppy to probe, but that's not an optimal
>   soltion.

Have you tried adding hint.fd.0.disabled="1" and hint.fdc.0.disabled="1" 
to your loader.conf (or device.hints)? I don't know it it will work, 
it's just something you could try.

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