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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:12:18
Message-Id: 201101041101.08781.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36 by "Jörg Schaible"
1 On Tuesday 04 January 2011 09:44:05 Jörg Schaible wrote:
2 > J. Roeleveld wrote:
3 > > One way to avoid USB-devices to be picked up before the kernel
4 > > picks its boot- device is to put the USB-stuff as modules and have
5 > > them loaded later.
6 > >
7 > > I haven't found a way to delay usb-device detection yet.
8 >
9 > If nothing else helps ... :-/
10
11 As someone remarked a few days ago (Alan? Volker?), a sound strategy is
12 to have only components that are essential to booting the machine built
13 into the kernel; all else should be modules.
14
15 --
16 Rgds
17 Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.

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