Re: howto disable floppy drive

akonstam_at_trinity.edu
Date: 09/01/05

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    Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:12:44 -0500
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    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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