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Offline Scooby

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remaster
« on: February 13, 2013, 05:35:14 AM »
Do you need usbwait=5 after a remaster of ISO

Offline tinypoodle

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Re: remaster
« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2013, 06:17:47 AM »
Huh?   ::)
non sequitur...

...and it's "waitusb="
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Offline ghosts

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Re: remaster
« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2013, 06:57:57 AM »
I don't think you really need it until you're booting from a usb? iirc that one is for usbs that are rather slow and won't be recognized by the computer when it boots up. At least that's what I remember reading (?)

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Re: remaster
« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2013, 10:01:42 AM »
It actually has nothing to do with booting, as it is only recognized by the init code after boot is complete.
It is needed any time you have your tce directory on a device that takes several seconds to reinitialize after a software reset.
That includes USB and many CFtoIDE adapters.
Without this option, the scan for the tce directory will miss the slow devices.

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Re: remaster
« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2013, 01:03:29 PM »
So if you have a remastered ISO with extensions onboard in tce/optional dir
there is no need for waitusb

Correct assumption?

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Re: remaster
« Reply #5 on: February 28, 2013, 01:19:19 PM »
Unless the device is slow in being recognized, e.g. cd connected through USB bus.

On a sidenote: tce/optional should not reside on a read-only filesystem, please search wiki for "remastering".
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