[Grml] Boot USB sans IDE noise
Michael Prokop
mika at grml.org
Sat Nov 25 11:34:37 CET 2006
* Mark <27e3kk302 at sneakemail.com> [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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