It appears that my linux will not boot at all due to my laptop having one of its two USB ports destroyed, however MS Windows on this same laptop manages things correctly. In Windows, the offending USB port shows as 'unrecognized device', while still allowing unfettered use of the remaining working USB port.

Is there a way to mimic this behavior in linux? In my case, I must use a wireless USB nic on my laptop. I post here because I am assuming this is a kernel flaw rather than a flaw of any particular linux variant.

'usb x-x: device not accepting address x, error -62'

You should not hi-jack a thread. I moved your post to a new thread . You can now receive targeted responses.

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Linux would not care if a usb is bad. It may be that a boot order deal. Try boot options maybe. I think some distros are linux=nousb or something like that maybe no hotplug.

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or try to finish to destroy the usb port, maybe taking it off you will remove some annoying bypass

ps: is more joking than other, but i would trying if it's your training pc, after trying the boots options of course

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Thanks for the replies!

and there it stops never to continue, I am only assuming because of the USB trouble. The identical linux boot image on my desktop performs perfectly.

I did look into simply bypassing the fuse on that dead port but alas I am unable to identify it as of yet. Thems small parts.

For my purposes, simply disabling all USB support is not an option, I will need at least one working port.

There is nothing actually plugged into any port yet. Not unlike Windows, Linux is interpretting the dead port as a working port with a mystery device on it.
Any ideas?

Sorry for the double post, but I wanted to increase the chance of Jefro reading this, I guess that's two strikes now as far as my forum netiquette, I like walking the thin line!

@Jefro, ahh you sir are correct, its all been a blur, yes I have tried a new linux flavour and it happily ignores the dead usb port as if it wasn't even there. Thanks for your sledgehammer confidence because it inspired me to take a look around.

So yea now to fuss around with the original linux version. Cheers all!

On the original try some boot options like failsafe or default or nousb or nohotplug options. May have to edit grub line at boot. Dunno your distro, may have been installed in such a way to need usb. Try to disable usb in bios maybe then fix distro issue.

The distro that is failing me is TinyCore, I have now tried Puppy and everything works just fine. So now I am to decide to I try to rebuild everything that I need from TinyCore into Puppy, or continue to fight with TinyCore, aw hell I'm gonna do both!

For fun then try netboot.me if you have a somewhat fast connection or boot.kernel.org

Both send a distro to your system over gpxe boot.