On Tue, 04 Apr 2006 16:34:03 +1200
Christopher Sawtell wrote:

> On Tuesday 04 April 2006 16:24, Robert Fisher wrote:
> > On Tuesday 04 April 2006 4:19 pm, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> > > > No but it would be nice to leave my flash card reader plugged in all
> > > > of the time and just plug in cards when I need to.
> > >
> > > ????
> > >
> > > That's what I do all the time, 3.5" floppy-sized internal
> > > reads-everything card reader, couldn't pull it out without a screw
> > > driver. I believe I had cards or other USB storage plugged in sometime
> > > while rebooting, no problems whatsoever.
> > >
> > > You're saying your box doesn't even boot when there simply is an empty
> > > card reader plugged in?
> >
> > You got it!
> >
> > (Or a pen drive, or a camera - a mouse is OK though - seems like just
> > the USB storage devices are a problem)
> 
> I used to have those kind of problems. What kernel are you running?
> I ask because as soon as I installed a recent one from the 2.6 series the 
> problems went away.
> 

Read the thread!!!

The kernel is not at fault. When a USB mass storage device is plugged
in, grub thinks the resulting scsi device is a hard disk and attempts to
find the kernel on it. In other words it thinks the USB device is (hd0).

-- 
Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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