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On Tue, 2 Jul 2013 15:09:28 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> > I had this problem on my Intel motherboard, and found out you can |
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> > disable booting from external drives. "Boot to removable devices" or |
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> > similar in the BIOS. Failing that, changing the boot order so that the |
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> > firewire/USB device is at the very end of the boot list may help your |
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> > situation. |
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> The problem isn't that the BIOS is booting the wrong drive. The BIOS |
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> is booting the correct drive, grub is starting, grub is loading the |
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> correct kernel. When the _kernel_ runs it (sometimes) identifies disk |
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> drives in the wrong order and tries to mount the root directory from |
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> the wrong drive. |
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And the BIOS order can affect the order in which the kernel sees the |
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drives, so it is worth trying. |
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I'd go for the firewire-as-a-module approach and add the module |
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to /etc/conf.d/modules to make sure it is loaded ASAP. Yes, it is a |
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kludge, but it is the simplest solution from a practical POV. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Processor: (n.) a device for converting sense to nonsense at the speed |
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of electricity, or (rarely) the reverse. |
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