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Hi all, |
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I'm running Gentoo linux -r14 on my Sony VAIO PCG-Z600TEK for a month |
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now and I absolutely love it, it's really fast! |
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This week I tried the new -r15.iso to test the added preliminary PCI |
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device autodetection and the USB-HID support. Just curious. |
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What happened was this. |
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When booting from cd, all the hardware is correctly recgnised, but when |
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the kernel tries to boot the memorystick it freezes. |
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My laptop has an internal memorystick-slot (i.e. a device to put a |
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memorystick/flashcard in). Internally this memorystick slot is |
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usb-connected and recognised as a scsi (??) storage-device. The kernel |
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tries to mount the device (just like any other harddisks) but since |
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there is no memorystick in the slot, there is nothing to be mounted. |
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That's where it goes wrong, the kernel freezes. |
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I had this same problem with -r14, not when booting from cd, but later, |
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on the first reboot after finishing the base install en compiling the |
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kernel. Then I solved this problem by adding the following line to my |
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/etc/fstab: |
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/dev/sda1 /mnt/usb-ms auto noauto,user,sync,exec 0 0 |
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which prevents the device from mounting at boot time. |
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I don't really think this is a bug, but I can't use the new iso for this |
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reason. Hope this can be fixed on the next iso. |
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regards, Arnold |
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