Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 31 Dec 2004 06:28:26 -0200 | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: waiting 10s before mounting root filesystem? |
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On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 01:49:05AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > 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,
The media may take a while to become readable (think of CDROM).
> why not rely upon the user doing that thing and then hitting reset?
I think this is not the case (only) case the patch covers up.
Yes its ugly.
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