On 6/15/05, JM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dmitry Mityugov wrote: > > >On 6/15/05, JM wrote: > > > > > >>i'm not exactly sure how to accomplish this... i'm having problems with > >>my cd-rom, which isn't surprising since it's a slim-line without UDMA > >>and probably isn't supported... but... it's eating up time when i'm > >>booting the system. i've erased the fstab lines for acd0 but it's still > >>probing the hardware when i boot the machine. how do i completely > >>disable probing for this device at startup? if possible i'd like to > >>just remove the device node altogether. every time i remove /dev/acd0 > >>it's just recreated each time i restart. not sure how to permanently > >>remove it without physically removing it from the system. is there > >>anyway to remove the node without removing the iso9660 entry from the > >>kernel? > >> > >> > > > >Is it possible to disable it in BIOS? > > > > > > > i was thinking more along the lines of telling the loader not to probe > for it...
Not sure if this will work but if the CD-ROM device is on a separate ATA controller, you can try to disable with with corresponding "disabled" statement in /boot/device.hints, like hint.ata.1.disabled="1" -- Dmitry "We live less by imagination than despite it" - Rockwell Kent, "N by E" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
