On Sat 02 Jun 2007 at 17:41:21 +0200, Wouter Schoot wrote:
> This should be semi-easy to fix, but isn't it much more simple to just
> install onto the stick and be able to somehow force the detection of USB
> storage before mounting it? That would solve it, and make it a whole lot
> easier. After all, I don't really need (but it's nice!) to be able to use
> VFAT.

With my machine, it seems that if the BIOS sets up the USB to look at
bootable devices, it messes them up such that NetBSD can't use them
properly anymore. For instance, I had an internal card reader on USB and
more often than not, the kernel got errors from it when initialising it
(again). It then proceeded to disable it. (Now I have an external card
reader which I can un/replug if needed but I don't leave it in
semi-permanently anyway)

I also accidentally booted from an USB disk (which held a bootable
backup, so I didn't even notice the difference at first) but it failed
to mount its root disk (sd0a). Of course I have the USB stuff all
statically in the kernel, no modules needed.

> Wouter
-Olaf.
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