On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 03:46:53PM +0100, Martin Mewes wrote: > In this scenario: Is it possible to quicken the boot-process so that > checking for hd/a-d is skipped? They should only be checked if the BIOS indicates they are present. If you are getting long pauses you might want to report a bug to the 2.6 kernel IDE maintainer