hide devices from linux?

[Tom Horsley]

On Sat, 2006-07-22 at 18:01 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> That didn't look like normal software raid, which shouldn't try
> to autodetect unless the partition type is set to 'FD' with
> fdisk.  It looked like mdraid - something to do with one
> of those embedded bios SATA drivers.

Yep - it is the Intel RAID controller on the P4C800-E motherboard.

I tried fiddling with the initrd image some, removing "dm"
commands from the init script and wot-not, but all that did
was make the kernel panic, so I clearly don't know enough to
do that right :-).