Lucid boot time greatly lengthened by non-existent floppy

[Mjpatey]

Referencing this thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9310729#post9310729

The boot time of Ubuntu 10.04 on my system (and evidently others) was initially just as long as in Karmic, about 45 seconds. Due to some changes in the boot process, it appears the floppy drive is now being accessed once the user logs in, even if there is no floppy drive present. If the BIOS does not have its floppy drive option disabled, Lucid will attempt to access it for quite a while; in my case, the additional wait was 27 seconds after login before I could see the contents of my Desktop.

The issue is solvable by a user who is comfortable with changing BIOS settings. All I had to do was disable the floppy option in my BIOS.

My feeling is that a new user would find this difficult, and would never investigate the cause of the protracted pause after login, thus negating the hard work Ubuntu's developers have put into streamlining the boot process as much as it has. With the proper BIOS setting, my system boots and is ready to use at the Desktop in around 20 seconds, and that kind of performance should be enjoyed by everybody!

Can the behavior of Karmic and earlier be brought back, or is this phantom-floppy-checking a necessary part of the new boot process?

[Rickard Närström (riccetn)]

This looks like a duplicate of bug #459950, marking it such.