That didn't help. However, adding a "blacklist=floppy"
option to kernel boot did the trick. I think "floppy" is
included in the initrd image and is loaded by the kernel
in the early phases of boot; I also suspect this happens
because I let the Debian installer load "floppy" when I
set up my system.
That is (somewhat) correct; the scripts which create the initrd image will
normally (in the default install) put all framebuffer, acpi, filesystem, and
hard disk drivers into the image. Have a look in
/etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf to get some idea what goes on. I had
problems a few months ago when I changed my kernel and discovered that the
scripts included (but didn't load) the 'md' driver.
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