Hi Alan, Am Sonntag, 21. März 2004 16:51 schrieb Alan Cox: > On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 03:46:53PM +0100, Martin Mewes wrote: > > In this scenario: Is it possible to quicken the boot-process so > > that checking for hd/a-d is skipped? > > They should only be checked if the BIOS indicates they are present. > If you are getting long pauses you might want to report a bug to > the 2.6 kernel IDE maintainer They are not present in the BIOS because the IDE-Drives are handled by the IDE-Raid-Hardware. Looks like something to work on. Thanks again :-) bis dahin/kind regards Martin Mewes -- http://www.mewes.tv/ Official Webmin/Usermin Translation Co-Ordinator 2003/2004 ######################################################################