How to disable floppy seek at linux startup? It is annoying enough that my BIOS has no switch that allows me to disable the floppy-seek at boot. But when I boot CentOS 5 the floppy seeks again - I suspect `hald` to do this. How can I disable that seek (/dev/fd0)?

If the floppy drive is not in use anyway, the better solution may well be to simply disable the `floppy` module. You can do this as follows:


echo blacklist floppy > /etc/modprobe.d/00-disablefloppy.conf