Re: waiting 10s before mounting root filesystem?

From: Andrew Morton (akpm_at_osdl.org)
Date: 12/31/04

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    Date:	Fri, 31 Dec 2004 01:49:05 -0800
To: William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>

    William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca> wrote:
    >
    > - printk("VFS: Cannot open root device \"%s\" or %s\n",
    > - root_device_name, b);
    > - printk("Please append a correct \"root=\" boot option\n");
    > + if (--tryagain) {
    > + printk (KERN_WARNING "VFS: Waiting %dsec for root device...\n", tryagain);
    > + ssleep (1);
    > + goto retry;
    > + }
    > + printk (KERN_CRIT "VFS: Cannot open root device \"%s\" or %s\n", root_device_name, b);
    > + printk (KERN_CRIT "Please append a correct \"root=\" boot option\n");

    Why is this patch needed? If it is to offer the user a chance to insert
    the correct medium or to connect the correct device, why not rely upon the
    user doing that thing and then hitting reset?
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