From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1Tl3u9-0001cF-Vr for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:36:45 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:42827) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tl3u1-0001bl-LO for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:36:44 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tl3tq-0001Gd-Sf for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:36:32 -0500 Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.120]:54887) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tl3tq-0001Co-N3 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:36:26 -0500 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=ScZ1h4tu c=1 sm=0 a=/DbS/tiKggfTkRRHPZEB4g==:17 a=Qsx_du5GiBkA:10 a=PJtIR_1cTkwA:10 a=0FHY1YBBu58A:10 a=S1A5HrydsesA:10 a=N659UExz7-8A:10 a=fxJcL_dCAAAA:8 a=YGBv1Y2Tdq8A:10 a=QfKxxUxMAAAA:8 a=LcZtRIH8q6Yb_XYd0MgA:9 a=pILNOxqGKmIA:10 a=/DbS/tiKggfTkRRHPZEB4g==:117 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Authenticated-User: X-Originating-IP: 67.78.168.186 Received: from [67.78.168.186] ([67.78.168.186:54977] helo=[10.1.1.235]) by cdptpa-oedge04.mail.rr.com (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 2.2.3.46 r()) with ESMTP id E7/29-29976-283D0D05; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 20:35:14 +0000 Message-ID: <50D0D381.4030508@ubuntu.com> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:35:13 -0500 From: Phillip Susi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB Subject: Re: Boot GRUB from USB - potential problem References: <1355676885.3291.52.camel@pracovna> In-Reply-To: <1355676885.3291.52.camel@pracovna> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 75.180.132.120 Cc: =?windows-1252?Q?Ale=9A_Nesrsta?= X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 20:36:44 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/16/2012 11:54 AM, Aleš Nesrsta wrote: > Hi, > > I found something not really bad but probably also not good, > related to booting of GRUB from USB device. I expect it is probably > (very) low priority thing. Sorry if it was discussed before, I > didn't notice it. > > Consider this situation: - You have ordinary PC which (BIOS) > supports boot from USB drive (such as flash disk etc.) - You boot > GRUB on this PC from some USB device into command line environment > - You do "insmod ehci" (or load any other USB module - uhci or ohci > - it depends what USB host controller Your PC has) - immediately > after issuing the command above the GRUB freezes > > Why? Because loading of GRUB USB driver stops BIOS support of USB > device from which You have booted GRUB, i.e. GRUB has no longer > access to any of its files. GRUB only needs access to files when you tell it to load them. You can load other grub modules you need before ehci, or change the path grub will load them from after loading ehci by setting the root and prefix variables. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJQ0NOBAAoJEJrBOlT6nu75LOwIAL0l3msEhg0QtvFU6o9pXyzw XlinEIsoCeGJ8oQ0x965nfuaSfpdQvlypbSYf8gDBTxYdmJ0iKehmLqDRePGjQPV w3QuSPg8H0pI4tKRwEC2LU6dlhlG3yqp2gxSAk0OuUK7BvULclkwnBkwnGsEs0Cc 0MWEdfpKgblWi6PFH5bEUNIqVlfSpwOVZ7Kh+bbqKScdOFno9Ed0ypG+tkr6YLvO QH8zcGrxG9OaXRlSCx47TQd7rmwctktBn3jf8T8YErF3FefXzthunHpppo5sWpd8 YgskiLNp3wCsv9+5MjWG+JbfbX0qyJ4WXP9kkJfVr+f4TFHkRs3c1/NkMwobXsE= =RU2P -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----