Porteus

Hi! First of all thanks to the devs and contributors for creating this awesome distro, its light, fast and reliable, I've been using it a lot.

My question here is if there is a way to prevent porteus from detecting and mounting the HDDs on my computer?, I have a USB installation and I do everything I need from there but I dont want it to have any contact with internal disks for security, I tried adding:

libata.noacpi=1 to porteus.conf file but it didnt work, also tried to add:

blacklist ata_piix
blacklist ata_generic but it also didnt work after mkinitrd.

These are solutions I found on internet but after nothing working I came asking here, is there any way to do that?

Use the nohd cheatcode

Solved it using the solution from user0815 here: viewtopic.php?t=8237

First I had to get the ATA adress of my disks with:
Then use that ata adress with libata.force=XX.00:disable where XX is the ata number of the disks I wanted to be disable on boot, I have two disks I wanted to be disable, so the for two disk the code had to be like this:
And use that code as cheat on my /boot/syslinux/porteus.cfg at the end of the APPEND line, thats it!

Good shot!

But maybe you should try cheat codes. They are numerous on porteus and very useful:
http://www.porteus.org/tutorials/26-gen ... -them.html

As proposed by babam the nohd cheatcode is a very good solution.