Re: usb discovery fails on initial boot

2008-11-16 Thread Russell Gadd
Florian Kulzer wrote: It would be interesting to see if the system recognizes the first USB stick when you remove it and plug it in again. You should run tail -fn0 /var/log/syslog before you unplug it, then plug it in again and wait for at least thirty seconds. (Press CTRL-C to end the sysl

Re: usb discovery fails on initial boot

2008-11-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 18:44:38 +, Russell Gadd wrote: > I ran this command : > # udevtrigger --verbose --subsystem-match=block --attr-match=removable=1 > > Output was: > /block/fd0 > /block/hdc > /block/hdd > > These are my floppy drive and my CD and DVD drives. It seems that the system is

Re: usb discovery fails on initial boot

2008-11-14 Thread Russell Gadd
I ran this command : # udevtrigger --verbose --subsystem-match=block --attr-match=removable=1 Output was: /block/fd0 /block/hdc /block/hdd These are my floppy drive and my CD and DVD drives. To check if I have and /dev/sd* devices I ran ls -l /dev |grep "sd" which I presume would do it - it prod

Re: usb discovery fails on initial boot

2008-11-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:28:37 +, Russell Gadd wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > >> >> The first thing we need to know is if the device node(s) for the USB >> stick are created reliably. When you have a "first boot" and the icon >> does not show up, please run >> >> ls -l /dev/disk/by-path/ |

Re: usb discovery fails on initial boot

2008-11-12 Thread Russell Gadd
Florian Kulzer wrote: The first thing we need to know is if the device node(s) for the USB stick are created reliably. When you have a "first boot" and the icon does not show up, please run ls -l /dev/disk/by-path/ | grep usb and post the output here (or let us know if there is no output).

Re: usb discovery fails on initial boot

2008-11-11 Thread Russell Gadd
Florian Kulzer wrote: The first thing we need to know is if the device node(s) for the USB stick are created reliably. When you have a "first boot" and the icon does not show up, please run ls -l /dev/disk/by-path/ | grep usb and post the output here (or let us know if there is no output).

Re: usb discovery fails on initial boot

2008-11-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 16:39:02 +, Russell Gadd wrote: > I have a bootup problem with a USB stick > > I have a USB stick which is permanently plugged in (for backup purposes). > When the PC first boots the stick is never discovered, but if I wait a few > minutes and reboot, it generally gets

usb discovery fails on initial boot

2008-11-10 Thread Russell Gadd
I have a bootup problem with a USB stick I have a USB stick which is permanently plugged in (for backup purposes). When the PC first boots the stick is never discovered, but if I wait a few minutes and reboot, it generally gets discovered and mounted with an icon on the desktop. I'm using Etch. I