Greetings All,

I'm experiencing troubles to pass the autoconfiguring devices process on a Dell Inspiron 600M notebook which results in stalling the boot process.

The error message is at Autoconfiguring devices:
Autoconfiguring devices... modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-2
(repeated)

block-major-2 seems to be caused by the lack of a floppy drive in this laptop. Autoconfiguring seeks for floppy drive and causes the boot halt when doesn't find one.
If block-major-2 problem is due to the lack of floppydrive indeed,
is there any Cheat code that could help boot with no floppy drive detection?


Only failsafe will pass by the modprobe major 2 halt and boot it.
All the rest of hardware is Beautifully supported in the Knoppix distro--thanks to Klaus and all that did this great job!. (well, the Intel WiFi is only backwards compatible, but still!).

Thank you for reading and your help. Since the floppy drive is getting obsolete, it will certainly benefit others too.

PS: I tried, of course, the first that came to mind:
knoppix nofloppy --the same modprobe problem,
... nofd --the same modprobe problem,
... nofd0 --the same modprobe problem...
... nousb as suggested: -the same modprobe problem...
disable the Floppy drive from the bootup sequence [BIOS] -the same modprobe problem...