BIOS complains about "no bootable floppy drive 0 installed"

Hello all,

I'm building a silent home server out of an old Laptop (ACER Aspire 1310).
This laptop has last BIOS released by ACER ( VIA VT8372 KN266 BIOS 4.00.11, ACER Aspire 1310 BIOS Version 3A25).
Sursprisingly, this BIOS does not allow to change anything on its devices configurations, except date/time, LPT port, and boot device order. In my configuration first device to boot from is HD, last one is Floppy.

For space and power consumption/heat reasons I've unpluged CD drive and Floppy Drive. Then, on every boot, BIOS complains with following message:

WARNING - NO BOOTABLE FLOPPY DRIVE 0 INSTALLED
Press F1 to Continue

The server will be a headless one: no screen, no keyboard. So this behaviour is not acceptable.

Is there any way to install a fake "floppy device" to fake the BIOS, or any way to avoid this BIOS check for floppy presence?


Thank you very much for your help.

Iñaki

See if you can disable the floppy drive in the bios.

Hello all,

Is there at least any way to flash the BIOS with another one (another from the same BIOS manufacturer: Insyde Software MobilePRO BIOS Version 4.00.05) that allows me to disable floppy unit checking?

May be I could flash a free BIOS such as Coreboot/LinuxBIOS/OpenBIOS/OpenBOOT, knowing that the motherboard model is DAET2DMB6E4 rev.E (manufacturer is ACER, as far as I know)?

Any way to install any piece of hardware to fake BIOS so it thinks that a floppy unit is present?

Any other trick I could try?


I'm completely lost, so I'll thank any reference to continue my searching.

Thank you very much


Iñaki