Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 31 Dec 2004 01:49:05 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: waiting 10s before mounting root filesystem? |
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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? - 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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