Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Jan 2003 14:35:01 -0800 | From | Samuel Flory <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] USB HardDisk Booting 2.4.20 |
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Alan Cox wrote:
>On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 17:27, Wesley Wright wrote: > > >>My tests show that it seems to work, and I haven't noticed any odd side >>affects by initcall-ing the usb devices (concern over this topic is why >>I enabled it for static USB MSD only). >> >>Does this seem a reasonable solution, or does anyone have something more >>elegant? >> >> > >Is there a reason for not using initrd for this. That should let you >use any kind of root device even ones requiring user space work before >the real root is mounted. > >
The problem I've seen is there is a several second delay before the usb device is availble. My solution was to stick a sleep in my initrd before attempting to mount /. A more rational patch might be to retry mounting / after a few seconds delay before giving up. I think I saw patch doing this on the usb list.
-- There is no such thing as obsolete hardware. Merely hardware that other people don't want. (The Second Rule of Hardware Acquisition) Sam Flory <sflory@rackable.com>
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