Optimizing server boot time

[sardaukar_siet]

Hello!

I have an i440GX chipset board with two on-board SCSI controllers, but since I don't use any SCSI disks, waiting for the kernel (Fedora 9) to detect them on every boot is dumb and takes a while.

I already disabled the SCSI controllers in the BIOS, so the kernel obviously does not use the BIOS setting. My question is: can I pass a kernel command line thingy to prevent this behavior or do I need to rebuild the initial ramdisk and remove these drivers or what?

Thanks!


PS - the SCSI adapters are recognized as Adaptec AIC-7896U2/7897U2 ones

[Zero-Override]

it might be something like scsi=off or noscsi or something similar i think :) not sure though but it might help

[sardaukar_siet]

I don't think so - it must be something targeting this module, because since Fedora 8 (i guess) all devices are SCSI (move from hda to sda), so if I use scsi=off, all my disks (including IDE) will go away - right?