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fluppet

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Registered: 2007-12-23

Posts: 11

Booting with usb devices attached [SOLVED]

When i try and boot my laptop with either a penstick or an external hard drive attached arch hangs when "loading udev events" for about 5 or so mins then boots as normal but wont recognise that any form of usb storage is available

any clues as to where to even start looking?

Last edited by fluppet (2008-01-15 15:09:22)

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: Booting with usb devices attached [SOLVED]

Try disabling module autoloading (MOD_AUTOLOAD in rc.conf) and loading modules manually. Well, if you do have autoloading enabled, that is.

fluppet

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Registered: 2007-12-23

Posts: 11

Re: Booting with usb devices attached [SOLVED]

turns out i needed to disable leagacy usb devices in the bios

ho hum

only took me a month and 8 distros to figure it out