Arch Linux

the_hippie

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Registered: 2006-08-07

Posts: 9

Disabling scsi-scan

Hola

I installed the current arch-iso and selected the normal arch-kernel. (not *noscsi)
But the computer doesn't have scsi
Everything installed very well, but the system startup is really slow.
Arch tries to find the right scsi-adapter, but there is none, so this takes really long.
Is there a way to disable this behaviour ?

Thanks

barebones

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Registered: 2006-04-30

Posts: 235

Re: Disabling scsi-scan

Trimming down your initrd may help. If you are using mkinitcpio, that would mean editing your /etc/mkinitcpio.conf file. Trimming down the HOOKS="" line to containe only what is needed to boot your system speeds it up noticabily. My line looks like this:

HOOKS="base udev autodetect sata filesystems"

My hard drives are sata, so that is all that I really need.

After editing the file you have to run:

mkinitcpio -g /boot/kernel26.img

To generate the new image.

There is a wiki page about this here

the_hippie

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Registered: 2006-08-07

Posts: 9

Re: Disabling scsi-scan

Thanks a lot ... now it works really fine ;-)