Floppy controller module load/unload failure

Chris Ricker kaboom at gatech.edu
Thu Jan 15 18:24:10 UTC 2004


On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Lamont R. Peterson wrote:

> Along the same lines, I have FC1 running on this notebook that does not
> have a floppy controller at all.  When I shutdown the system I always
> see something like:
> 
> floppy.o: Error can not unload floppy module...yada yada...
> 
> This would be because there is not one loaded.  I get an error message
> during boot about that too.  I do not have any entries in modules.conf
> for a floppy controller module.

That's your problem. You need to put

alias floppy off

in /etc/modules.conf

later,
chris





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