On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 06:48:29PM -0700, walt wrote: > Hi! I have an amd64 machine with an add-on usb3 adapter which > works well with the linux xhci driver, but the machine's BIOS > doesn't see any disks in the usb3 docking station I use.
It is very unlikely for the BIOS to have xhci support, and quite likely doesn't even support USB add in cards, so getting USB boot from add in cards is highly unlikely as far as I am aware. > My (elderly) grub-1.99-rc1 also doesn't see the outboard usb3 > drives, so grub is depending on the BIOS for disk detection(?) Don't know. > Am I mis-configuring grub, maybe? I see that grub sources, even > the latest 1.99, include ohci.c and uhci.c, but not xhci.c, so maybe > it's not supported yet? I have never even looked at usb in grub, although I probably should at some point. Could be handy for bootable usb keys I suppose. -- Len Sorensen _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
