How to prevent loading of Floppy drive module at boot?

[Garf]

Hi!

I am running Fedora Core 1 on an IBM Thinkpad A31p without floppy drive.
If got the Problem, that at boot-time Linux tries to load a kernel module for floppy drive support that, what a surprise, doesnt find any device. The resulting warning messages at boot time are slightly annoying .

Can anyone give me a hint, what I can do about that?

Thx
Garf

[Slip]

I am not sure but see if you have floppy in fstab.

cat /etc/fstab

If it's there you should try deleting that line and saving.

[Garf]

Thx for the quick answer but in my fstab isn't any trace of ao floppy device:

LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/hda6               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0

The error message during the booting process is:

Apr  6 17:18:14 Garfield devlabel: devlabel service started/restarted
Apr  6 17:18:15 Garfield kernel: inserting floppy driver for 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl
Apr  6 17:18:15 Garfield kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Apr  6 17:18:18 Garfield kernel: floppy0: no floppy controllers found
Apr  6 17:18:18 Garfield insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2174.nptl/kernel/drivers/block/floppy.o: init_module: No such device
Apr  6 17:18:18 Garfield 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
Apr  6 17:18:18 Garfield insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2174.nptl/kernel/drivers/block/floppy.o: insmod block-major-2 failed

Where do I find the file controlling the loading of kernel modules during startup?
Any further suggestions?

Thx in advance
Garf

[rdeschene2]

The error messages aren't going to "hurt" anything, but if you want to prevent them try the following.

/etc/modules.conf should list the modules that are attempted to be loaded at bootup. So if you open this file in an editor (you'll need to be logged in as root to do so I think) you can use the search function (search: floppy) to find the line where the floppy module is loaded.

You can add a # symbol to the front of this line and that should keep that module from being loaded. When you do have the floppy drive connected though, you'll have to go back in and remove that # symbol though.

[sqrly]

Try as root: modprobe -r floppy

You can use modprobe --list to see all the loaded modules. modules.conf will not list the floppy module as it is a standard module normally always loaded.