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From 6a1ff6845e571d2a9885763a3e52a16a9eec54bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:12:54 +0000
Subject: Disable use of floppy devices

An ugly kludge.  Should this be merged upstream?

Author: Robert Millan

Patch-Name: disable-floppies.patch
---
 grub-core/kern/emu/hostdisk.c | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/grub-core/kern/emu/hostdisk.c b/grub-core/kern/emu/hostdisk.c
index d975265b2..f90b6c9ce 100644
--- a/grub-core/kern/emu/hostdisk.c
+++ b/grub-core/kern/emu/hostdisk.c
@@ -532,6 +532,18 @@ read_device_map (const char *dev_map)
 	  continue;
 	}
 
+      if (! strncmp (p, "/dev/fd", sizeof ("/dev/fd") - 1))
+	{
+	  char *q = p + sizeof ("/dev/fd") - 1;
+	  if (*q >= '0' && *q <= '9')
+	    {
+	      free (map[drive].drive);
+	      map[drive].drive = NULL;
+	      grub_util_info ("`%s' looks like a floppy drive, skipping", p);
+	      continue;
+	    }
+	}
+
       /* On Linux, the devfs uses symbolic links horribly, and that
 	 confuses the interface very much, so use realpath to expand
 	 symbolic links.  */