This happens because casper (in the initrd mountroot() function) looks for the live CD on all block devices, including the floppy drive (somewhat unnecessary).
A workaround is to boot with "break=mount" and then when you have get the text prompt (press Enter to see it, because device detection messages hide it), type: rmmod floppy exit Does this workaround for everybody? ** Summary changed: - [feisty] installer reports I/O error dev fd0 + live install CD reports I/O error dev fd0 -- live install CD reports I/O error dev fd0 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/97306 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
