[WBEL-users] Error inserting module for non-existent floppy

[Conor Wynne]

On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 15:06, Conor Wynne wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 14:32, Gary Mansell wrote:
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > I have installed Whitebox on my Dell D600 laptop and it runs fine apart
> > from an annoying error message at boot time.
> > 
> > At the kudzu stage of the boot process, the machine tries to insert the
> > floppy kernel module. As my laptop has not got a floppy drive an error
> > message is created:
> > 
> > 
> > /lib/modules/2.4.21-20.EL/kernel/drivers/block/floppy.o: init_module: No
> > such device
> > Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters,
> > including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
> >       You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
> > /lib/modules/2.4.21-20.EL/kernel/drivers/block/floppy.o: insmod
> > /lib/modules/2.4.21-20.EL/kernel/drivers/block/floppy.o failed
> > /lib/modules/2.4.21-20.EL/kernel/drivers/block/floppy.o: insmod floppy
> > failed
> > I would appreciate it if someone could tell me how to stop this message.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance
> 
> Hi gary,
> 
> You have two choices:
> 
> # chkconfig kudzu off
> 
> Or, you can disable it by adding an entry to modules.conf:
> 
> alias block-major-2 floppy

OOps, that should be:
alias floppy off

As I was saying to Gary offlist, I've never had this issue, but I reckon
it will work. if anyone knows otherwise, then please let us all know. 

-- 
Conor Wynne
Dublin
Irlande