Grub spits out probing error messages when it probes my computer's drives. Every message relates to probing for floppy drives. My system does not have floppy drives. Version of Grub that I have compiled following the Linux From Scratch 5.0 instructions do not have these errors. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Emerge grub if necessary 2. Run Grub Actual Results: probing issues regarding floppy probes Expected Results: should not have the errors
Running grub with --no-floppy should solve your problem.
I ran grub with --no-floppy and it started at least 10 times faster and didn't give the probing errors.
Perhaps we should text for the existence of /dev/fd0, and if we don't find it, disable floppy support in the build? Or is this purely runtime?
This error is due to a buggy BIOS. Fix your BIOS, or use the workaround. Please change status to RESOLVED INVALID.
As stated above, this is due to a buggy BIOS. The LFS 5.0 grub appears to have been grub-0.94, which contained a workaround for this issue AFAIK. As such this is no longer a valid bug. Closing.