no usb detection during load

[Lowell Gilbert]

"Peter de Rooij" <peter at derooij.org> writes:

> More symptoms:
> - the detection of the usb drive after adding to fstab was a fluke. 
> The next few boots it was missing again...
> - I have seen the usb mouse and printer appear at boot twice now; each
> time after changing boot parameters (boot verbose, boot with ACPI). 
> The usb key appear every time(?)
> - when the usb mouse is not found there is a 30sec delay after
> detecting the keyboard and before the message about failure to
> allocate an IRQ for psm0 (no surprise, there's nothing there.)

Hmm.  Definitely try to use ACPI if you can...