On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 08:56:57AM +0400, Olive wrote: > My internal hard disk is dead: it makes a strange noise and remain in > the position on indefinitely. I have installed Linux on an external hard > drive (and I boot from a CD since this is an old laptop not being able > to boot from USB). I would like to prevent the kernel to access the > internal hard drive completely. Even if I do not access it; the kernel > read a bit from it; among other to get information on the partition > table. Is it possible to prevent the kernel to even see the drive? This > is an IDE hard disk.
How about disabling it in bios? gc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
