#2 /linuxrc hangs while attempting to mount non-existent floppy

[Matthew Franz]

Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 10:42:11 +0200
From: hans nohack <hans@nohack.de>
To: trinux-talk@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [Trinux-talk] new ISO image

yes, i had problems with the new ISO, too but not with
the dhcpd.
with my laptop (HP Omnibook 4150 and a 3Com NIC) the
ISO-trinux hangs on
early start (after decompressing the kernel - i think
during hardware
detect). the pcmcia floppy works fine.

[Matthew Franz]

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The problem is that mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 is hanging (for
several minutes) when there is no floppy drive present.
There seems to be no way of detecting the presence/absence
of a floppy drive via kernel messages or through /proc so
the best solution is to add a laptop or nofloppy argument to
syslinux.cfg