Re: [expert] Errors on startup

[John Aldrich]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> For some reason, on startup, a couple of my boxes wand to scan for hdb and
> hdd devices.  There are none.  After that, it tries to run Hard Drive
> Optimization on those 2 non-existing devices and of course it fails.  Other
> then the fact that it takes a little longer to start up and displays those 2
> error, nothing seems to be affected.  Is there a setting somewhere (Other
> then CMOS) to tell linux not to bother checking for anything other then hda.
> 
Check your /etc/fstab file. Make sure only /dev/hda is
defined (as far as HARD drives are concerned.... floppy and
other devices in there should, of course, be left alone!)
        John