Re: waiting 10s before mounting root filesystem?

From: Andreas Unterkircher (unki_at_netshadow.at)
Date: 12/27/04

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