Re: waiting 10s before mounting root filesystem?

[Trent Lloyd]

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.

Cheers,
Trent

> How do I make the kernel to wait about 10s before attempting to mount
> root filesystem?  Is there obscure kernel parameter?
> 
> 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.
> 
> -- 
> William Park <opengeometry@xxxxxxxx>
> Open Geometry Consulting, Toronto, Canada
> Linux solution for data processing. 
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