On Thursday 21 December 2000 22:30, you wrote:
> Alex wrote
>
> > I have the following at the end of rc.local
> >
> ># hdparm stuff
> > echo -n "Harddrive optimizations"
> > /sbin/hdparm -c 1 -d 1 -k 1 /dev/hda
> > /sbin/hdparm -c 1 -d 1 -k 1 /dev/hdb
> > /sbin/hdparm -c 1 -k 1 /dev/hde
>
> and .....
>
> Bill wrote:
> >I've got mine as the last line of rc.sysinit. It works.
>
> Well if either one of you guys says that the install did indeed append
> that to either script, then that makes my initial question about a
> possible kernel parameter moot, and that's one more mystery solved. I'm
> perfectly happy with that. :-)
Nope. I put the lines in. The install set up the hard drive optimizations
up as some sort of kernel parameter which caused my machine to lockup
hard on boot.
--
Alex
(Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
