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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jos Nouwen <josn@josn.myip.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: rootfs on USB storage device
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 21:07:45 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011114210745.A8285@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0111150349090.24081-100000@ds9.galaxy>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0111150349090.24081-100000@ds9.galaxy>

On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 04:22:33AM +0100, Jos Nouwen wrote:
> 
> Does anybody have a clue as to what the USB bus has to do with
> /dev/console?

It's a timing issue, and has nothing to do with /dev/console.  If you
sit and spin before you try to mount the root fs, the USB subsystem will
have enough time to find the drive.  There's a few patches that do this
in the lkml archives.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-15  4:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-15  3:22 rootfs on USB storage device Jos Nouwen
2001-11-15  5:07 ` Greg KH [this message]
2001-11-16  2:32   ` Jos Nouwen
     [not found] <mailman.1005878220.14858.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2001-11-16  3:06 ` Pete Zaitcev
2001-11-16 13:21   ` Eric Lammerts
2001-11-16 17:30     ` Pete Zaitcev

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