On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 11:46:48PM +0400, Brad Campbell wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> >>>completly, if possible. And then complain loudly to the vendor to fix
> >>>their BIOS.
> >>But if one is booting from that device...
> >
> >Booting from a USB device? I can see this happening when installing a
> >distro, and you boot from the USB cdrom, but not for "normal"
> >operations.
> >
>
> Just as a point of reference I have a machine here that boots from a USB
> keystick and runs from an NFS Root. It's a diskless machine that has no
> net-boot ability. I have used this on a number of machines over recent
> history.
Then I guess your BIOS didn't do the horrible things that the original
poster was reporting, which is good :)
thanks,
greg k-h
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