#8921 NORM Not Tri: Booting from USB does not work in 8.2

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#8921: Booting from USB does not work in 8.2
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 Reporter:  teapot        |         Owner:               
     Type:  defect        |        Status:  new          
 Priority:  normal        |     Milestone:  Not Triaged  
Component:  not assigned  |       Version:  not specified
 Keywords:  USB           |   Next_action:  never set    
 Verified:  0             |     Blockedby:               
 Blocking:                |  
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 Though #7620 fix loads ohci-hcd driver, booting from USB produces
 filesystem errors, and boot never completes. This happens because ehci-hcd
 driver is not loaded before the USB drive is mounted. Likely the problem
 did not happen with early firmware that prevented EHCI from working.

 Adding the line
 {{{
 call(['/sbin/modprobe','ehci-hcd'])
 }}}

 after
 {{{
 call(['/sbin/modprobe','ohci-hcd'])
 }}}

 in initutil.py (exact position in the file varies between versions)
 loads both drivers before mounting USB drive, fixing the problem.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8921>
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