Bug 500290 - install hangs for many minutes attempting to read a non-existant floppy
Summary: install hangs for many minutes attempting to read a non-existant floppy
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 493338
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: rawhide
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
low
urgent
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Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-05-12 06:07 UTC by Albert Cahalan
Modified: 2009-05-12 14:15 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-05-12 14:15:55 UTC
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Description Albert Cahalan 2009-05-12 06:07:55 UTC
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6 (Debian-1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.6-1)

Around where the installer tries to discover RAID volumes and/or an existing
Linux installation, it pointlessly tries to mess with the floppy. (which is
of course a block device that could in theory have a RAID volume, but...)

This hangs for many minutes. (5 to 30 perhaps) One could go for lunch.

The hardware is an older Dell Latitude with the floppy disabled in the BIOS.

Probably the kernel and the hardware also have bugs, but in any case there
is no need for the installer to be screwing around with floppy drives in 2009.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.install Fedora 11 beta
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Comment 1 Chris Lumens 2009-05-12 14:15:55 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 493338 ***


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