Re: IDEA: Shortening boot-time

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 01:59:43PM +0200, Florian Schirmer wrote:
> That sounds broken to me. IMHO the interactive stuff (fsck, interactive 
> startup) should be invoked as early as possible so that we still have 
> the BIOS provided HID emulation. Otherwise a corrupted fs/usb host 
> driver may render the system useless.

Not all systems use BIOS HID emulation and on some of them we actually
have to turn it off because it doesn't work properly