LordHatrus Posted February 8, 2004 Share Posted February 8, 2004 OK, First off, I have a lot of computers running linux, I have a small cluster :yes: Anyway, on ONE (just the one) of these motherboards, linux takes an uber-long time to boot, because it looks (and fails to find) HD drives E and G. <There are no drives E and G.... dur> With the 2.4.x kernel, this happens: hde: no response (status = 0xfe) hdg: no response (status = 0xfe) With 2.6.2 kernel: hde: no response (status = 0xfe) hdg: no response (satus = 0xfe) hde: no response (status = 0xfe), resetting drive hde: no response (status = 0xfe) hdg: no response (status = 0xfe), resetting drive hdg: no response (status = 0xfe) This is PROBABLY because this particular board supports SATA, yet has nothing on the SATA channels. I THINK I just need to put a new command for Grub to pass to the kernel, which says "Yo, don't look for those drives, they aint there, stupid!" but I'm not sure what this command would be. :) btw, is there a way to pause the kernel starting up so you can read anything? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MR_Candyman Posted February 8, 2004 Share Posted February 8, 2004 why noit turn the sata off? that would let it go "oh, the bios says there's nothing there so why look?" (as linux goes closer to what the bios says than windows...damn windows...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordHatrus Posted February 8, 2004 Author Share Posted February 8, 2004 Sure, make me feel stupid! :laugh: :) Sounds like the obvious and glaring answer that I never would have realized. :rolleyes: Trying now.... wh00t!!!! Works. Thx! (It's those neowinian einstiens... always making me look like a noob.... :laugh: ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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