Bug#404972: Minor problems with Notebook HP nc 6000

[peter green]

> In particular, it kept waiting at the fd0 lines, so what I think 
> is that it
> had troubles with that.  This notebook does NOT have a floppy drive, so I
> guess that the long wait is related to fd0 timing out.
is this by any chance one of those laptops where the bios thinks there is a 
floppy drive even when there isn't (i've seen this before with notebooks with 
hotswap drives)