Unable to boot from external USB DVD drive
Matthew Dillon
dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Wed Aug 19 00:28:32 PDT 2009
:Ok I have made a slight progress. It seems that the BIOS was configured to
:always use USB 2.0 (480Mbps), after switching to 12Mbps, the drive got
:recognized by the kernel at /dev/cd8 but mountroot still failed (and
:keyboard didnt work). Why cd8? I guess this is related to not using ehci
:by default. Why are we still not supporting USB 2.0 out of the box?
:
:Cheers,
:Petr
Ach. It's my fault. USB devices assign units starting at 8 so as
not to create confusion with da/cd assignments from AHCI or SILI.
The boot code tries da8 automatically but doesn't try cd8 automatically.
Easy to fix. I'll have a commit in place in a few minutes.
I do not know why the keyboard isn't working.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon at backplane.com>
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