Re: [LAU] Udev error with CCRMA rt23 kernel - Linux-audio-user

20 Aug 2010

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  On 07/21/2009 05:22 PM, James Cameron wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 05:07:56PM +1000, M Watts wrote:
> On a fresh Fedora 11 install (HP nc8000 laptop, 1.6 Ghz Pentium M), the
> Planet CCRMA kernel-rt-2.6.29.6-1.rt23.2.fc11.ccrma.i546.rt freezes on
> boot with:
>
> Starting udev: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
> Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0 
...
  I'm inclined to think that this error
(end_request, Buffer I/O) is quite
 normal for a laptop that presents a floppy drive to the kernel via the
 BIOS yet doesn't have one ... 
Yes, and there's no option to disable it in BIOS.  I never went further 
with this last year, as  I just tried another kernel.

But the problem recurred with my Fedora 13 install disc!

One solution is to add

floppy.allowed_drive_mask=0

to grub's kernel options :)