From: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
To: geoffeg@sin.sloth.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Using USB floppy drive for root floppy
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 03:34:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200112230834.fBN8YHl15225@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.1009060801.12605.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <mailman.1009060801.12605.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
>[...]
> Originally, I just downloaded the standard boot and root floppies. I booted
> and got the "Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk and press
> ENTER" message. Upon inserting the root disk and pressing ENTER I get a
> message saying "Unable to mount root fs on 02:00".
>[...]
> To get around this problem I compiled my own kernel (2.4.12) with USB and
> SCSI floppy support. Upon booting that kernel, linux recognizes the USB
> floppy drive and apparently assigns it to sda. I then tried booting with
> root=/dev/fd0 which caused the "Unable to mount root fs on 02:00" again. I
> then tried root=/dev/sda which caused the kernel to panic with "Unable to
> mount root fs on 08:00".
There must be a delay before an attempt to mount is made.
Insert schedule_timeout(5*HZ) there (mdelay won't work because
it locks out khubd).
-- Pete
next parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-23 8:34 UTC|newest]
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2001-12-23 8:34 ` Pete Zaitcev [this message]
2001-12-23 16:07 ` Using USB floppy drive for root floppy Eric Lammerts
2001-12-22 22:44 Geoffrey Gallaway
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