Re: waiting 10s before mounting root filesystem?

[Andreas Unterkircher]

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.
>
> 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.
> >
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