Do have the driver for the controller compiled in? I am using a sil controller and found that without the driver it got ignored. The delay is the sil bios checking itself for drives, not the kernel (why it takes so long I dont know). I am ignoring an onboard promise controller the same way: not compiling in the driver.
BillK On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 00:57, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 07:33, Spider wrote: > > begin quote > > On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 05:59:12 -0800 > > Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > Is there any simple way to instruct the kernel to limit its boot > > > time search for hard drives to /dev/hda through /dev/hde? I end up > > > with long delay while it waits for no response on the second > > > channel of the second controller. > > > > > > add this to the commandline for your kernel : > > hdb=ignore hdc=ignore hdd=ignore hdf=ignore > > > > after the kernel line in grub, or as append="" in lilo > > > > //Spider > > > Humm...I still get a long delay as the boot comes back saying: > > hde: ST380023AS, ATA DISK drive > blk: queue c0385a68, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) > > A long delay of about 30-45 seconds here, then: > > hdg: no response (status = 0xfe) > > and then it goes on to boot. > > I tried it both on the line with the kernel command, and on the next > line by itself. No difference. > > hde (and hdf, g & h if they existed) is on a Silicon Image SATA > controller. > > This is not a big deal. Just trying to make this machine boot very > cleanly and quickly. > > Thanks, > Mark > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
