Re: [PATCH] Wait and retry mounting root device

[William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 12:37:16PM +0000, Daniel Drake wrote:
> This is based a patch by William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca> included in
> 2.6.10-mm1, in order to fix booting from usb-storage devices which no longer
> make their partitions immediately available.
> 
> While William's patch fixed the situation where you boot from a "root=8:1"
> parameter (to correspond to /dev/sda1), it does not allow you to use
> "root=/dev/sda1" (which apparently worked in 2.6.9 and earlier), because
> the name-->dev_t discovery is done before the "retry" loop starts, and is
> not retried during the loop.
> 
> This patch, which replaces William's, solves the above problems.

It's funny...  Your patch does the opposite.  It works for
    root=/dev/sda1
from the kernel command line, but not from Lilo or 'root=8:1' on command
line. :-)

-- 
William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>
Open Geometry Consulting, Toronto, Canada
Linux solution for data processing.