From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040312 Description of problem: Insertion of the floppy module by Kudzu during hardware detection at bootup fails if the floppy controller is disabled in the BIOS. The following error message is displayed: FATAL: error insert floppy (/lib/modules/2.6.4-1.305smp/kernel/drivers/block/floppy.ko): No such device Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kudzu-1.1.54-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Disable floppy controller in BIOS 2. Boot FC2 test2 Actual Results: An error message is displayed when Kudzu tries to detect a disabled floppy Expected Results: Kudzu should detect the absence of a floppy and an error message should not be displayed Additional info: The following lines appear in dmesg: inserting floppy driver for 2.6.4-1.305smp floppy0: no floppy controllers found
There's no way to detect the absence of a FDC aside from loading the module. The only way to get rid of the message is to build the module into the kernel.
Wouldn't it be possible to still try to insert the module, but prevent the kernel from displayed the error message?
The kernel only displays informational data - the dmesg lines, the FATAL and warnings come from anaconda and the module tools. Personally - I agree the installer should hide them
Will be fixed in 1.1.59-1.