Am Di, den 20.01.2004 schrieb David Kistner um 19:06: > When I boot by Fedora Core-1 machine the system has always hung for a > number of seconds during the process: > hde: no response (status = 0xfe) > hdg: no response (status = 0xfe) > > I Googled these messages and it sounds like a SATA issue with my Abit > NF7-S. I'm not using the SATA, only PATA for two hard drives along with > a CDrom burner. Anyway, I Googled and found the following > recommendation to solve this: > > >> Add the following parameter to your kernel line in lilo/grub: > >> hdg=none > >> and it'll happily ignore hdg on startup. :) > > I tried putting this line into my /boot/grub/grub.conf file but it > didn't help. I thought maybe I'm putting it in the wrong place. Here's > a copy of my grub.conf file......where should I place hdg=none and > hde=none? Or is there something else I should be doing? > > # grub.conf generated by anaconda > # > # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file > # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that > # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. > # root (hd0,0) > # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda2 > # initrd /initrd-version.img > #boot=/dev/hda > default=0 > timeout=10 > splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2149.nptl) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi rhgb > initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl.img > title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2115.nptl) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi rhgb > initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img > > TIA > - Dave Kistner Old line: kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi rhgb New line: kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi rhgb hde=noe hdg=noe All these things like "rhgb" or "hdc="ide-scsi" are kernel parameters. You could also set "apm=off acpi=on". Using lilo they are given the kernel with append="hde=none" i.e. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany PGP key valid: made 13.07.1999 PGP fingerprint: 2307 88FD 2D41 038E 7416 14CD E197 6E88 ED69 5653