On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 08:56:57AM +0400, Olive wrote:
My internal hard disk is dead: it makes a strange noise and remain in
the position on indefinitely. I have installed Linux on an external
hard drive (and I boot from a CD since this is an old laptop not
being able to boot from USB). I would like to prevent the kernel to
access the internal hard drive completely. Even if I do not access
it; the kernel read a bit from it; among other to get information on
the partition table. Is it possible to prevent the kernel to even see
the drive? This is an IDE hard disk.
How about disabling it in bios?