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#1 2009-05-28 23:50:51

virati
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Registered: 2008-04-14
Posts: 83

Initramfs and blocking some sata drive detection

Would it be feasible/possible to tell the initramfs to ignore everything but my root filesystem?

When I load, before rc.sysinit takes over, I see a LOT of text, mostly because I've got 5 harddrives and 3 usb devices hooked up to the comp. Is there any way to shorten that part seeing as how I don't need to access any of the other harddrives that early in the boot process? Thanks.

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#2 2009-05-29 06:45:31

bender02
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From: UK
Registered: 2007-02-04
Posts: 1,328

Re: Initramfs and blocking some sata drive detection

You can remove try to remove the usb modules by getting rid of any 'usb..' hook in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf. However, you *need* sata driver for your main harddrive, and once it gets loaded the kernel will detect all the remaining sata drivers as well. What you can try though is to pass 'fastboot' parameter to the kernel - that might cause the kernel to detect the driver in parallel - so shortening the time needed to detect them. [However this might cause that the init will proceed before your root harddrive is detected, resulting in a problem that it will try to mount a nonexistent drive and fail.]

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