On 4 January 2011 11:01, Peter Humphrey <pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote: > On Tuesday 04 January 2011 09:44:05 Jörg Schaible wrote: >> J. Roeleveld wrote: >> > One way to avoid USB-devices to be picked up before the kernel >> > picks its boot- device is to put the USB-stuff as modules and have >> > them loaded later. >> > >> > I haven't found a way to delay usb-device detection yet. >> >> If nothing else helps ... :-/ > > As someone remarked a few days ago (Alan? Volker?), a sound strategy is > to have only components that are essential to booting the machine built > into the kernel; all else should be modules.
There's also the device.map file, but if device names change on the fly each time the machine boots with different things connected to it ... may not be any good for this problem. Perhaps it's time to upgrade to GRUB2 and use labels - because it definitely can use them as well as UUID Nos and can also use scripts which will scan your devices and pick the one you want. -- Regards, Mick
