Re: waiting 10s before mounting root filesystem?

[Andreas Unterkircher <unki@netshadow.at>]

Or you could try a patch from Randy Dunlap & Eric Lammerts [1] which 
loops around in do_mounts.c
until the root filesystem can be mounted.... not that beautiful - but it 
works :)

[1] http://www.xenotime.net/linux/usb/usbboot-2422.patch

Cheers,
Andreas

PS: In the same manner you can do it with 2.6

Trent Lloyd wrote:

>This is really suited to the task of an initrd, then you can spin until
>the usb storage device comes up in a bash script or something similar.
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>Cheers,
>Trent
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>>How do I make the kernel to wait about 10s before attempting to mount
>>root filesystem?  Is there obscure kernel parameter?
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>>I can load the kernel from /dev/fd0, then mount /dev/hda2 as root
>>filesystem.  But, I can't seem to mount /dev/sda1 (USB key drive) as
>>root filesystem.  All relevant USB and SCSI modules are compiled into
>>the kernel.  I think kernel is too fast in panicking.  I would like the
>>kernel to wait about 10s until 'usb-storage' and 'sd_mod' work out all
>>the details.
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>>-- 
>>William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>
>>Open Geometry Consulting, Toronto, Canada
>>Linux solution for data processing. 
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