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On 4 January 2011 11:01, Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 04 January 2011 09:44:05 Jörg Schaible wrote: |
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>> J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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>> > One way to avoid USB-devices to be picked up before the kernel |
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>> > picks its boot- device is to put the USB-stuff as modules and have |
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>> > them loaded later. |
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>> > I haven't found a way to delay usb-device detection yet. |
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>> If nothing else helps ... :-/ |
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> As someone remarked a few days ago (Alan? Volker?), a sound strategy is |
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> to have only components that are essential to booting the machine built |
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> into the kernel; all else should be modules. |
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There's also the device.map file, but if device names change on the |
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fly each time the machine boots with different things connected to it |
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... may not be any good for this problem. |
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Perhaps it's time to upgrade to GRUB2 and use labels - because it |
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definitely can use them as well as UUID Nos and can also use scripts |
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which will scan your devices and pick the one you want. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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