On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 06:01:42PM +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:

> When a firmware is missing, DI now prompts for a device with that
> firmware. (great, I love that feature!).

> If I understand the situation correctly, the fact that one introduces a
> usb key causes that key to be enumerated before the sata hard disk,
> which causes grub to write an incorrect configuration file (since the
> standard kernel enumerate HD first).

That would only be true if the USB disk is detected by the kernel prior to
the SATA hard disk, which seems to only be plausible if the SATA driver
itself needs to load firmware.  Is that what you're talking about here?

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