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SubjectRe: waiting 10s before mounting root filesystem?
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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> William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>
> Open Geometry Consulting, Toronto, Canada
> Linux solution for data processing.
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