don't have a floppy, but kernel thinks so

[Kai Thomsen]

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 16:54:34 -0600, Brian Millett wrote:

> Hello, I've installed fedora core on a toshiba satellite 1135-S155. 
> Man it works great.  One problem I have is in the /var/log/messages I
> see this references to a floppy:
> 
> Nov 10 16:49:12 shaka kernel: inserting floppy driver for
> 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl
> Nov 10 16:49:15 shaka kernel: floppy0: no floppy controllers found
> Nov 10 16:49:15 shaka insmod:
> /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/kernel/drivers/block/floppy.o:
> init_module: No such device
> Nov 10 16:49:15 shaka insmod: 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
> 
> Now, there is not a floppy on this beast.  How do I tell the kernel to
> ignore the floppy?

If you want to prevent the (harmless) error message, try adding the
following line to /etc/modules.conf:

  alias block-major-2 off


HTH,
--Kai