daniewicz Posted January 2, 2006 Report Share Posted January 2, 2006 My motherboard has USB support, but I do not own any USB hardware so I wish to disable the USB support when booting linux. My original lilo.conf looked like this: image=/boot/vmlinuz label="linux" root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="resume=/dev/hda5 splash=silent mem=1000M" vga=788 read-only With this lilo.conf, from boot.log: Jan 2 08:18:13 192 usb: Initializing USB controller (uhci-hcd): succeeded Jan 2 08:18:13 192 usb: Mount USB filesystem succeeded Next I created a new lilo.conf adding nousb image=/boot/vmlinuz label="linux" root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="resume=/dev/hda5 splash=silent nousb mem=1000M" vga=788 read-only Using this lilo.conf removed the above USB message from boot.log. However, a USB controller still shows up in MCC under Hardware ??? I realize my best option would be to disable USB support in my BIOS, but I can't find anything other than disable legacy USB support. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted January 2, 2006 Report Share Posted January 2, 2006 You might try commenting out the "install usb-interface" line from /etc/modprobe.conf. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted January 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2006 Thanks for the response. Unfortunately, commenting out this line didn't help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted January 3, 2006 Report Share Posted January 3, 2006 Put usbcore at hotplug's blacklist (if still using hotplug, of course- I do not). If you don't like messages about failing insmoding at bootup, put there as well uhci-hcd. There's another method (changing the default udev rules), but it's not necessary. Finally, why don't you simply disable USB support from system BIOS? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted January 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2006 I can't find anything in the BIOS other than disable legacy USB support. I will try your sugestions. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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