Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Dec 2004 04:10:15 +0800 | From | Trent Lloyd <> | Subject | Re: waiting 10s before mounting root filesystem? |
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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. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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