#8811 NORM Not Tri: OFW q2e19 breaks booting off of external drives

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#8811: OFW q2e19 breaks booting off of external drives
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   Reporter:  Progman3K            |       Owner:  wmb at firmworks.com
       Type:  defect               |      Status:  new              
   Priority:  normal               |   Milestone:  Not Triaged      
  Component:  ofw - open firmware  |     Version:  not specified    
 Resolution:                       |    Keywords:  hang             
Next_action:  never set            |    Verified:  0                
  Blockedby:                       |    Blocking:                   
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Comment(by Progman3K):

 Both booting off of a USB key (/dev/sda1) and booting off of a SD card
 (/dev/mmcblk0p1) exhibit this problem.

 It is possible the kernel is in fact wedging, but it worked before the
 upgrade, albeit not every boot. I found that NOT plugging in any USB mouse
 or keyboard would reduce the frequency of the problem.

 My unit (a G1G1) has a stuck-key, so I have been using an external
 keyboard basically since I started working with it.

 The kernel can be downloaded from www.gentooxo.org/download.shtml but the
 package is quite big, so I will attach the minimum files required to this
 ticket.

 I am using an initramfs, everything is contained in the kernel file, there
 is no secondary initrd file.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8811#comment:2>
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