Bug 144098
Summary: | RH Desktop without floppy - sometimes hangs, always complains | ||
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Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | Reporter: | Tim Skirvin <tskirvin> |
Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Brian Maly <bmaly> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 3.0 | CC: | barryn, katzj, notting, petrides, riel |
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Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2007-04-19 20:14:41 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Tim Skirvin
2005-01-04 15:40:02 UTC
Add 'alias floppy off' to /etc/modules.conf; this will prevent the driver from being loaded. The hang on floppy load is a kernel driver issue. Unfortunately, the underlying issue is that it's impossible to detect the presence of a floppy drive without loading the driver. This works, and is scriptable. So I'm good. Thanks! I should note, I don't know if this solves the hwconf problems yet... Tim, can you follow up with your experience? I tend to believe that the workaround would deal with the hwconf issue as well, but I'd like confirmation... hwconf hasn't complained again since I started fixing it in modules.conf. User jparadis's account has been closed |