prevent access to a hard drive completely
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.
Olive
PS I am not currently on Debian but I like the list (and I am sure the
answer to this question should be generic)
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