From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Alexander E. Patrakov" Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 13:48:20 +0000 Subject: Re: 2.6.12 + devices on initrd Message-Id: <42B577A4.60801@ums.usu.ru> List-Id: References: <200506191420.39355.Janne.Karhunen@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200506191420.39355.Janne.Karhunen@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org Janne Karhunen wrote: > On Sunday 19 June 2005 15:42, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > > >>Thanks. Since the initrd drops you to a shell, could you please in that >>shell execute the following command and mail the results here, so that >>we know what devices are created by udev? >> >>echo /dev/* > > > There are plenty. After dropping to shell, it looks like everything > necessary is in place. I'm even able to mount root etc. > > So this is some form of a timing issue - it just doesn't wait long > enough before giving up. Can i tune this somehow? It's a bug in mkinitrd / mkinitramfs / whatever tool you used to create this initrd. BTW how long does it wait? As a workaround, you can manually recreate the initrd using the existing one as a base and adding a "sleep 15" before mounting root. -- Alexander E. Patrakov ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt77&alloc_id492&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel