From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jon Smirl Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 00:01:46 +0000 Subject: lkml thread "current linus bk, error mounting root" Message-Id: <9e473391050321160154cbfe2c@mail.gmail.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org I just sent this to AndrewM in reference to the lkml thread "current linus bk, error mounting root". The problem is that something in the bk tree after 2.6.11 caused the mount of my root SATA device to fail. -------------------------------------------------------------------- No, I think Jens wants all of the distributions to fix it. I have filed a bug with Fedora on it. Something changed in the timing for loading drivers during boot. You used to be able to do: modprobe ata_piix mount /dev/sda1 Now you have to do this: modprobe ata_piix sleep 1 mount /dev/sda1 I suspect the problem is that udev doesn't get a chance to run anymore. The sleep 1 allows it to run and it creates /dev/sda1. Build ata_piix in and the problem goes away too. Jens is right that this is a user space issue, but how many people are going to find this out the hard way when their root drives stop mounting. Since no one is complaining I have to assume that most kernel developers have their root device drivers built into the kernel. I was loading mine as a module since for a long time Redhat was not shipping kernels with SATA built in. -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&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