Re: howto disable floppy drive

[Roberto Felloni]

I have a big problem on boot.
My server, after runs services, before graphical login, 
show me black screen, led of hdd turn off, and make nothing 
until 3-5 minutes ... 
and I don't understand what's happen !!!

On messages log there are some lines than executes their job employing 
3 or 5 minutes.

-----------------------------------------
Jun 17 23:53:01 bear crond(pam_unix)[2799]: session opened for user
root by (uid=0)
Jun 17 23:53:01 bear fstab-sync[2798]: added mount point /media/cdrom
for /dev/hdb
Jun 17 23:53:01 bear crond(pam_unix)[2799]: session closed for user root
Jun 17 23:53:06 bear fstab-sync[2875]: added mount point /media/floppy
for /dev/fd0
Jun 17 23:55:01 bear crond(pam_unix)[2898]: session opened for user
root by (uid=0)
Jun 17 23:55:04 bear crond(pam_unix)[2898]: session closed for user root
Jun 17 23:58:38 bear gdm(pam_unix)[2812]: session opened for user root
by (uid=0)
-------------------------------------------

At first time I have turned off crond service, to try better startup
and target the problem,
but the time of boot aren't better than previous.

Now I wanna try to disable mounting of floppy drive.
> From here my request to mailinglist.

some proposal ?

thanks for your interest.
(sorry for the ignorance: I'm a Windoze user during day and Linux for
my free time).

2005/8/31, [e-mail] :
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 01:26:23PM +0200, Roberto Felloni wrote:
> > Hi list.
> >
> > I have tried to remove (with fstab-sync) settings on fstab for my floppy,
> > bat without results.
> > On fstab-sync man page I have read syntax to remove media,
> > but I don't understand wat's UDI and where I can find it.
> >
> > ---- man fstab-sync ----------------------------------------------------------
> > fstab-sync --remove=UDI
> >       Remove an entry from fstab by giving a HAL
> >       Unique Device Identifier
> > ---- man fstab-sync ----------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > I have tried replacing UDI with
> > /dev/fd0
> > fd0
> > /media/floppy
> > floppy
> >
> > and any cases return to me error on a library.
> > less /etc/fstab :
> >
> > LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
> > LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
> > none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> > LABEL=/home             /home                   ext3    defaults        1 2
> > none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
> > none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
> > LABEL=/usr              /usr                    ext3    defaults        1 2
> > LABEL=/var              /var                    ext3    defaults        1 2
> > /dev/hdc1               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
> > /dev/hdb                /media/cdrom            auto
> > pamconsole,ro,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
> > /dev/fd0                /media/floppy           auto
> > pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
>
> THis is confusing. The fstab you post should prevent the floppy
> mounting at boot . I assume it does not try to mount the CD on boot.
> In both cases it is the: pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed
> part of the fstab line that does it. I assume that this clause being
> on a different line in your post is caused buy wraparound and actually
> it is on the same line.
>
> I guess not we must ask what makes you think that the system is
> trying to mount the floppy at boot time?
>
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