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I am totally new to linux, but my guess is that linux is either looking for a floppy drive which it cannot find (because there isn't one)
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I think your right.
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From googling I have found that people with similar issues have been able to repair them by adding "alias floppy off" to /etc/modules.conf.
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I couldn't find any specific docs, but I guess this is pretty much telling the kernel not to bother trying to load the floppy driver. I had a look at floppy.txt in the kernel docs but there is no option ie: "floppy=noprobe" like there is for ide disks. Try the alias line in modules.conf. If this still doesn't work then a sure-fire way to get rid of this problem is to build a new kernel _without_ floppy support. This is what I did with my new workstation which I didn't bother to install a floppy in.
It still troubles me that this is making Fedora stop booting. It seems to me that the kernel should give up and move on when it doesn't find a floppy controller. I installed gentoo on a laptop with no floppy and never had a problem...
Anyways, it would definitely appear that fedora is trying to load the floppy module. Have a look at the modules.conf line and try to disable it.