[Bug 384579] Re: Linux thinks there’s a floppy drive when there’s not. Probing slows down bootup by almost a minute.

[Ozan Çağlayan]

I don't know the internals of the initramfs in Ubuntu but an exact
problem is caused by the findfs applet from busybox which calls open()
on /dev/fd0 causing high delays.

I reported the bug to the upstream, 
https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=365

I've workarounded the problem by adding a --no-floppy parameter to the findfs applet and calling it with that parameter from initramfs:
http://svn.pardus.org.tr/pardus/2009/devel/system/base/mkinitramfs/files/disable-floppy-probing.patch

If the findfs/busybox combination is not valid for Ubuntu, just ignore
this.


** Bug watch added: Busybox Bugzilla #365
   https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=365

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Linux thinks there’s a floppy drive when there’s not. Probing slows down bootup by almost a minute.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/384579
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