Comment 22 for bug 95857

This is one of the most annoying bugs.

Blacklisting floppy module in the initrd will stop system from pausing for 1+ minute(s) on an non-existent floppy drive. No reason it needs to be there because who uses floppy to load drivers?

Once the livecd reaches the desktop the floppy is available (lsmod | grep floppy shows it is loaded), eg don't blacklist in squashfs.

This will stop the annoying pauses but still allow floppy to function in the OS.