I am booting my Fedora Core 5 CD in rescue mode (See thread further down) and when booting up, it is taking over 5 minutes for the boot process to get past attempting to load aic7xxx driver.

The motherboard I am using has a scsi chipset onboard but the SCSI bios is disabled in the bios and I have no devices on the scsi chain. Is there a way to skip the auto p[robe and attempted load via a boot parameter? I am desperately trying to recover this systems and waiting from 5-10 minutes for this device load to time out is driving me crazy.

Adding the module to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist under ubuntu will disable automatic module loading.

Joal Heagney

Add noload=aic7xxx to your boot options when grub starts.

Thanks lpwevers, that is what I was looking for...

It didn't work lpwevers... Any other suggestions?

Try providing this to the kernel at boot:

brokenmodules=aic7xxx

I've done it before during a SuSE install...I'm not sure how standard it is, but if you can't find anything else on the net, give that a try.

Open the file "blacklist" located under /etc/modprobe.d/ with a text editor
add the line
This should work for you

FYI, I cannot edit any startup files in etc because I am booting in rescue mode from the FC5 CD

The successful option for my purposes was:
linux rescue noprobe

but once in rescue mode you can mount your system drive and edit the file
either that or a normal boot disk/usb/dvd etc ...

Well, if you can do without any SCSI support, you can always try to add the noscsi option to the boot parameters.

axobeauvi:
Please reference why I am trying to re-boot in rescue mode... I am trying to recover a software SCSI raid array and the system partition is on an LVM on the raid array. To edit the array on the boot partition from the CD boot is pointless because it doesn't solve the waiting 5-10 minutes every time I have to reboot to restart a recovery session.

lpwevers:
I tried the noscsi boot option and it didn't skip the scsi probing during the startup.