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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Brad Campbell <brad@wasp.net.au>
Cc: George Anzinger <george@mvista.com>,
	john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
	ganzinger@mvista.com, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Calibration issues with USB disc present.
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 11:43:09 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051114194309.GA1945@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4378E9A8.5050807@wasp.net.au>

On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 11:46:48PM +0400, Brad Campbell wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> >>>completly, if possible.  And then complain loudly to the vendor to fix
> >>>their BIOS.
> >>But if one is booting from that device...
> >
> >Booting from a USB device?  I can see this happening when installing a
> >distro, and you boot from the USB cdrom, but not for "normal"
> >operations.
> >
> 
> Just as a point of reference I have a machine here that boots from a USB 
> keystick and runs from an NFS Root. It's a diskless machine that has no 
> net-boot ability. I have used this on a number of machines over recent 
> history.

Then I guess your BIOS didn't do the horrible things that the original
poster was reporting, which is good :)

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-14 19:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-11 21:37 Calibration issues with USB disc present George Anzinger
2005-11-11 21:57 ` john stultz
2005-11-12  5:05   ` Greg KH
2005-11-12 16:06     ` George Anzinger
2005-11-12 21:33       ` Greg KH
2005-11-14 18:56         ` George Anzinger
2005-11-14 18:49           ` Greg KH
2005-11-14 19:46             ` Brad Campbell
2005-11-14 19:43               ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-11-14 19:58             ` john stultz
2005-11-14 21:52               ` George Anzinger
2005-11-17  0:03                 ` Max Krasnyansky
2005-11-17  0:30                   ` Lee Revell
2005-11-17 17:43                     ` Max Krasnyansky

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