On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 11:51:44PM +0200, Tijnema wrote: > > > > Can you go in to the bios and play with the boot order, or tell it > > that the IDE drive isn't there ? (no guarantees linux will be able > > to find an IDE if the bios has disabled it, but very possible). > > > > ĸen > > You would have a very buggy BIOS if linux could actually find the > drive after disabling it in the BIOS. > You mean there exists at least one bios that is not correctly described as "very buggy" ? ;-) Of course, what I was mostly thinking about was disabling it as a boot device. But, every x86|x86_64 machine I've ever owned has had less-than-obvious options in its bios.
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