External drives not detected at boot time?

[Michel Salim]

2007/2/17, Adam Turk <bofh1234 at hotmail.com>:
> From: "Michel Salim" <michel salim gmail com>
>
> >In Rawhide, USB external drives are not detected if they are plugged
> >in at boot time, requiring power-cycling before the required device
> >nodes are created in /dev and gnome-volume-manager works.
> >
> >Has there been any changes in the boot process that might have caused this?
>
> This problem has been around since August 2006. See
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204396 for the details.
>
> The short version is it works for a little while then it stops working due
> to some update. It works again, stops working. repeat. There is no rhyme or
> reason to it.
>
Hmm, I've not had that problem with FC6. Guess I was lucky until now.

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