Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: How to find if BIOS has already enabled the device | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Sat, 28 May 2005 15:04:52 +0100 |
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On Sad, 2005-05-28 at 14:57, Parag Warudkar wrote: > This current problem of Hang-On-Boot if USB drive is attached does not happen > with Windows - so it is some sort of additional (unnecessary?) thing which > Linux does and the BIOS doesn't like. (Like re-enabling the controller even > if BIOS has already enabled it or some such.)
Provide dmesg output and we might be able to guess. The first obvious candidate would be the BIOS refusing to do a handover if it booted from USB disk.
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