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Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 23:46:48 +0400
From: Brad Campbell <brad@wasp.net.au>
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To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
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Subject: Re: Calibration issues with USB disc present.
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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.

Brad
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