* Marc 'Zugschlus' Haber <bts@bts.grml.org> [20080512 18:54]:

> On some systems, GRML hangs for minutes on "Searching for GRML file". When 
> watching GRML booting a virtual machine, this shows that GRML tries to access a 
> non-existing floppy.

> In some systems, it is not possible to disable the floppy controller in the 
> BIOS.

> Since GRML is way too large for a floppy anyway, I guess that it is safe to 
> exclude /sys/blog/fd0 from the list that is obtained in find_livefs in 
> scripts/live by echo /sys/block/*.

> There should probably be a boot parameter to re-enable the scan of the floppy 
> drive for the rare case that this is actually needed.

Can you please try booting with bootoption "nopersistent"?
Does this change anything?

regards,
-mika-