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SubjectRe: sleep before boot panic
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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