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]>
