Bug#282063: 0.95: --no-floppy doesn't prevent probing of floppy

[Jan Ingvoldstad]

Package: grub
Version: 0.95+cvs20040624-10
Severity: important



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-bf2.4
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages grub depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5                 5.4-4        Shared libraries for terminal hand

-- no debconf information

Error messages onscreen:

end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 1
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 2
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 3
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 4
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 5
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 6
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 7


Editing /boot/grub/devices.map and manually removing the entry for fd0
circumvents the problem.