Re: How to find if BIOS has already enabled the device

[Alan Cox]

On Sad, 2005-05-28 at 14:57, Parag Warudkar wrote:
> This current problem of Hang-On-Boot if USB drive is attached does not happen 
> with Windows - so it is some sort of additional (unnecessary?) thing which 
> Linux does and the BIOS doesn't like.  (Like re-enabling the controller even 
> if BIOS has already enabled it or some such.)

Provide dmesg output and we might be able to guess. The first obvious
candidate would be the BIOS refusing to do a handover if it booted from
USB disk.

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