NN_il_Confusionario wrote: >> * From: Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Is there anything in the startup routine that I can alter so that the >>system ignores /dev/hdb? > > Linkname: The Linux BootPrompt-HowTo: Hard Disks > URL: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/BootPrompt-HOWTO-7.html > >>I tried disabling the >>2nd hard disk from the bios but that didn't seem to have any effect. > > Linux does not use the bios to access disks (at most it can read from > the bios the "fake geometry" so that this "geometry" used by the bios, > the mbr and the boot loader are the same) > > Thanks for the link. Just to be sure I understand, in my /boot/grub/menu.lst file I have this: kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro I should change this line to kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro hdb=noprobe
Is this the correct place for the boot option? 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]
