Re: Stop looking for my hde and hdg drives during boot!

From: Andreas Janssen (andreas.janssen_at_bigfoot.com)
Date: 02/13/05


Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 10:17:09 +0100

Hello

yvan@ideasdesign.com (<yvan@ideasdesign.com>) wrote:

> I'm running Fedora Core 2.44 on a PC that has SATA controllers on the
> motehrboard, but not SATAT hardrives attached. I'm noticing that when
> I boot my system into Linux, that the system hangs for an unusually
> long time while looking for hde and hdg drives - which I suspect are
> my primary and secondary controllers for the non-existent SATA
> hardrives. How can I reconfigure my setup so that these 2 volumes are
> ignored / skipped over during bootup?

If you cannot disable the controller in your BIOS or using a jumper on
the motherboard, try to use the kernel boot parameter hd?=noprobe.

best regards
 Andreas Janssen

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