What happened to floppy drive support?

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 20:36:09 +0000,
  "n2xssvv.g02gfr12930" <n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> 
> I've been using a floppy boot disk as reserve if my HD boot fails, But
> it appears floppy support as now been removed. Why? Then how can I
> create an emergency media that is flexible enough to be updated as required?

I haven't gotten around to filing a bug about this since I wasn't sure
if it was intentional or not, but you can use:
modprobe floppy
to create /dev/fd0 and be able to use your floppy drive.