NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:16:35AM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: >> > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 06:55:30PM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: >> >> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro >> >> hdb=noprobe >> I tried both hdb=noprobe and hdb=none but the boot up >> routine paid absolutely no attention. The same problem persists. Is there >> any other place I could tell the bootup routine to ignore hdb? > <snip> > See also > > Linkname: Linux-Kernel Archive: Re: ide0=noprobe, hda=noprobe, hda=none > ignored? > URL: > http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0706.1/1645.html > Hi NN, Again, thanks so much for your patience and knowledge. I'm learning a lot this way.
The above link you sent seems to be exactly what I need! I've followed the steps. 1) check if you have ide_core loaded as module: Yes, I do. lsmod | grep ide_core ide_core 108292 4 ide_cd,ide_disk,via82cxxx,generic 2) Check if you have an initrd in /boot: Yes, I do. ls /boot/initrd*`uname -r` /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-1-686 3) Check if you use /etc/modprobe.conf, or /etc/modprobe.d I use /etc/modprobe.d ls -ld /etc/modprobe.conf /etc/modprobe.d drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2008-04-19 09:07 /etc/modprobe.d 4) So if I understand things correctly, to stop my system from probing hdb I should execute the following command: echo 'options ide_core options="hdb=noprobe"' >/etc/modprobe.d/noprobe This will create a file, noprobe in my /etc/modprobe.d folder. Then I execute sudo update-initramfs -u 5) I'll skip this step After that I just reboot and as they say "enjoy the no probing". 6) reboot Does all this seem correct? Thanks again. Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
