On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 02:52:13PM +0530, pradeep singh wrote: > hi all > > whenever i put a USB pen drive in the USB slots it gets recognized in Linux > and i can mount it using simple mount /dev/sda1 command. > > Problem is whenever i put the device in the slot before booting the Linux it > doesnt recognize it.At this point even if i plug it out and insert it again > , it still doesnot detects it.Can anybody explain why this is so? It's a bug, try the latest kernel version and if that doesn't work, file it at bugzilla.kernel.org please. thanks, greg k-h -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/