[Grml] Re: Boot USB sans IDE noise

[Mark]

> > Can he boot from USB without powering IDE drives?  Grml has an orderly
> > IDE power-off procedure at shutdown.
[snip]
> 
> 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

We want "don't power up IDE drives at all."  BIOS may do that no matter
what.  So, next best option is "turn IDE drives off during grml
startup." If drives don't spin they are quiet.  We want the same
power-off as grml does at shutdown, except we want it at bootup.

M.