On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Ryan Finnie <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 05/29/2013 04:09 PM, Peder Stray wrote:
> >     Seems it is related to USB 3, the usb-storage-devices power up when
> >     not connected to one of the blue usb-ports on the laptop... found a
> >     yellow one, and suddenly the screen filled with kernel messages from
> sdb
> >
> > Some told me to look for the xhci kernel module, and it seems it isn't
> > present in Finnix... Guess a new build is needed that actually supports
> usb3
>
> Finnix 108 (kernel 3.8, specifically) includes xhci modules, which
> should be loaded by udev as needed.  They are not included in the
> initrd, but that's because (IIRC from my lab tests) they were not needed
> at initrd time to be able to initialize the controller (ehci was
> sufficient), then at userland time udev would upgrade it to xhci.


Definitly seems it is needed when using grub to loopback-mount an
finnix.iso as I do at least :)


> From your experience, this may not be the case, unless you're using an
> older
> Finnix release?
>

Tested with 108 as I said earlier in the thread.


> I'm traveling this week, but will try to dig deeper when I get back,
> unless someone else does a better investigation beforehand.


Ok, no problems when I actually know what works and not with the current
setup, but I'm willing to test if needed later :)

-- 
  Peder Stray
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