6.2 Hangs Probing Floppy During Boot
Tim Daneliuk
tundra at tundraware.com
Thu Sep 6 14:21:09 PDT 2007
Ivan Voras wrote:
> 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.
>
I have not. If I do this, will it actually disable the floppy/controller?
The issue for me is that I want to be able to actually use the floppy
when I need it, I just don't want to have wait multiple minutes while
the kernel figures out there is not floppy in the drive at boot time...
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