Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jan 2008 01:38:47 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: sleep before boot panic |
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On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 19:08:42 +0100 Bernd Schubert <bernd-schubert@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi, > > I just switched to libata (pata) on my laptop and the immediate panic made it > impossible to figure out why my boot partition wasn't available. > After applying this little patch I could check boot printk output and then saw > everything was properly recognized and only scsi-disk support was missing. > > > Signed-off-by: Bernd Schubert <bernd-schubert@gmx.de> > > Index: zd1211rw.git.beno/init/do_mounts.c > =================================================================== > --- zd1211rw.git.beno.orig/init/do_mounts.c 2008-01-06 18:44:23.000000000 > +0100
Your email client is wordwrapping things.
> +++ zd1211rw.git.beno/init/do_mounts.c 2008-01-06 18:45:44.000000000 +0100 > @@ -330,6 +330,7 @@ > printk("Please append a correct \"root=\" boot option; here are the > available partitions:\n"); > > printk_all_partitions(); > + msleep(60 * 1000); > panic("VFS: Unable to mount root fs on %s", b); > }
We could borrow the existing pause_on_oops stuff and use it in panic().
Or we could copy it into a new pause_on_panic, but it's hard to see a use case where they need to be separate.
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