Re: change how grub access decive to work around usb stick hardware bug

[frederik.hofe]

Am 16.04.2015 um 16:06 schrieb Andrei Borzenkov:
> В Thu, 16 Apr 2015 15:04:08 +0200
> "frederik.hofe"<address@hidden>  пишет:
>
> > I have this USB stick (SanDisk Ultra Fit, 32 GB version) that deadlocks
> > when the kernel accesses it after the bios was doing something(?) with it.
> > So it works fine for most use cases except if I want to use it as boot
> > device. (Already asked on the usb mailing list:
> > http://marc.info/?t=142896890100003&r=1&w=2)
> >
> > So far I only managed to boot arch on that stick. Im not sure what
> > exactly the arch image uses to boot, maybe Syslinus?
> >
> > I would like to know if there are different ways how grub can access the
> > stick and how I would change that?
> Obvious first question - do you use legacy BIOS or EFI boot?
Bios boot.
Just now I tried lilo and it boots fine. It just needs over ~20 Sec. to 
load the boot image. Grub is a bit faster.
But geting lilo to work on xubuntu seesm to come with some hassle, so I 
still like to get it to work with grub.