I'm running Fedora Core 2.44 on a PC that has SATA controllers on the
motehrboard, but not SATAT hardrives attached. I'm noticing that when
I boot my system into Linux, that the system hangs for an unusually
long time while looking for hde and hdg drives - which I suspect are my
primary and secondary controllers for the non-existent SATA hardrives.
How can I reconfigure my setup so that these 2 volumes are ignored /
skipped over during bootup?

Thanks,
- yvan

**
I do not remember the name of the startup script that looks for
hde-hdh, but if you read the "From Power-on to Boot Prompt Howto" and
the startup scripts you will find the script. I found it once before
while reading throught all of the boot scripts.

Walt R.
**

yvan@ideasdesign.com wrote:
> I'm running Fedora Core 2.44 on a PC that has SATA controllers on the
> motehrboard, but not SATAT hardrives attached. I'm noticing that when
> I boot my system into Linux, that the system hangs for an unusually
> long time while looking for hde and hdg drives - which I suspect are my
> primary and secondary controllers for the non-existent SATA hardrives.
> How can I reconfigure my setup so that these 2 volumes are ignored /
> skipped over during bootup?

Easiest is to disable the SATA controller. You may have to do this with a
jumper, my A7N8X Deluxes don't have a BIOS option to do it.

Keith

<yvan@ideasdesign.com> wrote in message
news:1108217089.503860.263760@z14g2000cwz.googlegr oups.com...
> I'm running Fedora Core 2.44 on a PC that has SATA controllers on the
> motehrboard, but not SATAT hardrives attached. I'm noticing that when
> I boot my system into Linux, that the system hangs for an unusually
> long time while looking for hde and hdg drives - which I suspect are my
> primary and secondary controllers for the non-existent SATA hardrives.
> How can I reconfigure my setup so that these 2 volumes are ignored /
> skipped over during bootup?

Disable them in the BIOS. I find that disabling unused SCSI or SATA
controllers significantly speeds boot time.

"Nico Kadel-Garcia" <nkadel@comcast.net> writes:


><yvan@ideasdesign.com> wrote in message
>news:1108217089.503860.263760@z14g2000cwz.googleg roups.com...
>> I'm running Fedora Core 2.44 on a PC that has SATA controllers on the
>> motehrboard, but not SATAT hardrives attached. I'm noticing that when
>> I boot my system into Linux, that the system hangs for an unusually
>> long time while looking for hde and hdg drives - which I suspect are my
>> primary and secondary controllers for the non-existent SATA hardrives.
>> How can I reconfigure my setup so that these 2 volumes are ignored /
>> skipped over during bootup?

>Disable them in the BIOS. I find that disabling unused SCSI or SATA
>controllers significantly speeds boot time.

Sure except many bioses do not have any option for disabling them.


Actually use a more recent kernel also works. Mandrake 10.1 2.6.8.1-12 or
24mdk do not seem to have the sata delay.

Hello

yvan@ideasdesign.com (<yvan@ideasdesign.com>) wrote:

> I'm running Fedora Core 2.44 on a PC that has SATA controllers on the
> motehrboard, but not SATAT hardrives attached. I'm noticing that when
> I boot my system into Linux, that the system hangs for an unusually
> long time while looking for hde and hdg drives - which I suspect are
> my primary and secondary controllers for the non-existent SATA
> hardrives. How can I reconfigure my setup so that these 2 volumes are
> ignored / skipped over during bootup?

If you cannot disable the controller in your BIOS or using a jumper on
the motherboard, try to use the kernel boot parameter hd?=noprobe.

best regards
Andreas Janssen

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http://www.andreas-janssen.de/debian-tipps-sarge.html

"Bill Unruh" <unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca> wrote in message
news:cumlqr$1pu$1@nntp.itservices.ubc.ca...
> "Nico Kadel-Garcia" <nkadel@comcast.net> writes:
>
>
>><yvan@ideasdesign.com> wrote in message
>>news:1108217089.503860.263760@z14g2000cwz.google groups.com...
>>> I'm running Fedora Core 2.44 on a PC that has SATA controllers on the
>>> motehrboard, but not SATAT hardrives attached. I'm noticing that when
>>> I boot my system into Linux, that the system hangs for an unusually
>>> long time while looking for hde and hdg drives - which I suspect are my
>>> primary and secondary controllers for the non-existent SATA hardrives.
>>> How can I reconfigure my setup so that these 2 volumes are ignored /
>>> skipped over during bootup?
>
>>Disable them in the BIOS. I find that disabling unused SCSI or SATA
>>controllers significantly speeds boot time.
>
> Sure except many bioses do not have any option for disabling them.
>
>
> Actually use a more recent kernel also works. Mandrake 10.1 2.6.8.1-12 or
> 24mdk do not seem to have the sata delay.

I am going to be *REALLY* surprised if a motherboard recent enough to have
built-in SATA controllers does not have an option to disable it in the BIOS.