* Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20061122 04:15]: > One user noticed that older IDE drives (CD, HDD) make noise, depending > on age, case vibrations. His USB drive is very quiet. He boots grml > from that.
> Can he boot from USB without powering IDE drives? Grml has an orderly > IDE power-off procedure at shutdown. You hear the IDE hard drives click > off one by one. The question is best method to invoke the commands at > boot time. > Of course he can always unplug the power cables manually :-) But > customers don't like that. :-) Software control is better anyway. Hm, what you want to get is "do not touch the ide drives at all"? Try booting with kernel parameters ide1=noprobe ide2=noprobe ide3=noprobe ide4=noprobe then. regards, -mika- -- You like grml? Help us! http://grml.org/donations/ Already on the grml-user-map? http://www.frappr.com/grmlusers The Grml Planet http://planet.grml.org/ Grml Solutions http://solutions.grml.org/
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