[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#862217: initscript does fsck on empty floppy drive and stops booting

[David Lawyer]

Package: initscripts
Version: 2.88dsf-59.9_i38

My PC has a floppy drive which I seldom use.  When I boot linux, it runs
/etc/init.d/checkfs.sh which runs fsck.fat on the floppy drive
/dev/fd0.  The fsck fails because there is no floppy in the drive and
booting halts.  The error message is: open: No such device or address fsck.fat 4.1 (2017-01-24).
The error message is also wrong since there is such a device, /dev/fd0,
but it has no media (disk) in it.  Following this error message are
messages that fsck failed and that I can type C-d to continue booting.

Linux should not try to run fsck on a floppy drive at boottime, unless
perhaps if it's booting from floppy and the boot fails.  I'm booting from
my harddrive.

Here's my /etc/fstab file:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information for 80GB Maxtor.
#
# <file system>     <mount point>   <type>  <options>   <dump>  <pass>
LABEL=80GB-Maxtor	/            ext4    defaults    0       1
LABEL=80GB-Maxtor-swp   none            swap    sw            0       0
/dev/cdrom		 /home/dave/cd	iso9660	rw,noauto,user   0       2	
LABEL=8GB-Maxtor         /bak 	        ext4    rw,noauto,user,exec  0       2
/dev/fd0	/home/dave/fd		vfat	rw,noauto,user,noexec,  0       1	

			David Lawyer