Re: problem booting

[josep lladonosa capell]

Missatge de Jimmie Mayfield <jimmie@sackheads.org> del dia dv., 10 de
jul. 2020 a les 19:15:
>
> On 7/9/20 12:56, Dan Cihon wrote:
> > I have a hp spectrex360 15t laptop.
> >
> > When I have a optical usb mouse plugged in and boot the laptop the
> > GRUB screen freezes at the GRUB menu not allowing me to boot to anything.

This happened to me in an HP tower with a usb webcam connected some
years ago. I solved that with a bios update.

> >
> > If I take out the usb mouse adapter GRUB works fine.
>
>
> For what it's worth, I see vaguely similar behavior on my IBM x3100M4
> workstation.  In my case, there are a handful of USB devices that, for
> whatever reason, cause the server to freeze and/or reboot immediately
> after the GRUB menu disappears.  When I need to reboot the machine, I
> have to remember to disconnect those devices (which means rebooting
> remotely is impossible).
>
> USB wired keyboard and mouse:  boots fine.
>
> USB RS-232 serial converter (Prolific):  boots fine.
>
> USB wireless keyboard/mouse receiver (Logitech): reboot after the GRUB menu

Perhaps these links can give a solution for Logitech devices:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/884199/grub-freezes-when-logitech-unifying-receiver-plugged-in

https://fwupd.org/lvfs/search?value=logitech


>
> USB wireless mouse receiver (MosArt): boots fine
>
> USB audio DAC (Behringer): reboot after the GRUB menu
>
> USB webcam (Logitech BRIO): hangs with a blinking cursor after the GRUB menu
>
>
> -- Jimmie
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