On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:26:39AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 08:27:10 +0200, > Remi Collet <Fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=565693 > > > > Computer without floppy drive are quite common. > > If the floppy controller is enable in BIOS (which is often the default > > configuration), anaconda hangs during the "Finding storage devices" stage. > > The short answer is that if you don't have a floppy drive installed, you > should disble the controller in the bios. > > The other side of this problem has also been reported. Not checking for > a floppy results in people who actually have floppy drives, not being > able to easily use them. > > There have been discussions on both the anaconda and kernel lists on this > topic. The latest is that Kyle McMartin thinks he has a way to take care > of most of the cases by finding out if there is a drive actually installed > using ACPI. This isn't in the Fedora kernel just yet, but hopefully will > be for the F13 release. didn't DOS do it some 30 years ago without ACPI? It never took so long to detect a (nonexistent) drive in the old days. Richard -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
