Re: non-free firmware, WEP/WPA, freeness and disk-order on reboot.
On Saturday 25 October 2008, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 06:01:42PM +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
> > If I understand the situation correctly, the fact that one introduces
> > a usb key causes that key to be enumerated before the sata hard disk,
> > which causes grub to write an incorrect configuration file (since the
> > standard kernel enumerate HD first).
>
> That would only be true if the USB disk is detected by the kernel prior
> to the SATA hard disk, which seems to only be plausible if the SATA
> driver itself needs to load firmware. Is that what you're talking
> about here?
It's true for any net-based installation (netboot, mini.iso) as those
images do contain usb-related modules, but not disk drivers.
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