From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.173]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7527667B69 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 11:40:32 +1000 (EST) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id e2so368310ugf for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:40:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <528646bc0608161840u62d217cbv7eab091975920c4b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:40:31 -0600 From: "Grant Likely" Sender: glikely@gmail.com To: "Jeff Angielski" Subject: Re: Linux hanging on Xilinx SystemACE In-Reply-To: <1155775917.10357.37.camel@sumo-jaa> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed References: <3C02138692C13C4BB675FE7EA240952918DBED@bluefin.Soneticom.local> <528646bc0608161448y26e13398v3b818ed5f1124295@mail.gmail.com> <1155775917.10357.37.camel@sumo-jaa> Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on Embedded PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On 8/16/06, Jeff Angielski wrote: > On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 15:48 -0600, Grant Likely wrote: > > Checking partitions is a user-space activity (fsck). Remove it from > > your init scripts. Besides, unless your using a microdrive, your ext2 > > rootfs should be mounted read-only which greatly reduces the need for > > fsck. (because FLASH will wear out after too many writes) > > The partition check he is referring to is part of a block device driver > initialization. It is not fsck. If he were only so luck to be that far > in the startup sequence... :) heh; I grepped the 2.6 kernel tree for "Partition check" and didn't find anything, and I assumed that it wasn't in 2.4 either. Therefore it must be a fsck message... You know what they say about assuming. oops g. -- Grant Likely, B.Sc. P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. grant.likely@secretlab.ca (403) 399-0195