I would have expected this solution to make it not take very long,
since it's usually pretty snappy to see that a file isn't there at all.
Oh, well, it was worth a shot.
As a suggested by another list member, I'd see if these drives are
listed in /etc/fstab, though I suspect that not the problem; still,
it's worth a shot. Otherwise, I'm afraid I don't know.
You might be able to pass some kernel parameters to tell it that you
don't have those devices, but I'm afraid I don't know what you'd say
for "nothing"; eg,
append="hdc=null, hdd=null"
(something to that effect), but this is getting beyond what I really
know, I'm afraid.
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, you wrote:
| Sorry, but that did not work. I just got a different error upon startup. The big
| time waster is when it sits there trying to detect the non existent hard drives.
| It takes longer at that step the it takes to completely come up... The only real
| difference in the error was it was unable to find the file instead of saying it
| was unable to find the hard drive. There has to be a setting somewhere where I
| can disable the hard drive search for the two devices... I am completely at a
| loss here. I triple checked my CMOS settings and re-installed RedHat 4 times now
| to try to get rid of that. No luck... Any other suggestions? I am willing to
| try anything.
|
| Thanks for quickly responding.
|
| "Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote:
|
| > Not sure why it wants to check those two, but if you have a "typical"
| > modern PC system, you don't want to limit it to hda; you want hdc as
| > well, which will be your CD-ROM drive.
| >
| > You could presumably just
| >
| > rm /dev/hdb* /dev/hdd*
| >
| > if you wanted a crude approach to short-circuiting the bogus drive
| > checks. You'd still get an error, presumably, but it ought to be a
| > much faster error.
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