* 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-
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