Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.53c Hi,
I am trying to boot a notebook from an external USB harddisk with grub, a debian 2.6.15.1 kernel and an initrd generated with mkinitramfs. The kernel boots, but then does not find it's root partition. It says that /dev/sda1 does not exist, and opens an emergency shell. Right after the shell prompt appears the kernel prints to have found /dev/sda* partitions. From the shell the partition exists. So it seems to be a timing problem. the initrd seems to be finished and trying to pass the control over to the /root partition before the kernel has found the partitions on the USB device. USB partitions seem to simply come too late. Could the init script in the initrd check for existence of the root partition, and if not, maybe wait for 1 or 2 seconds and check again (maybe repeat this step 5 times)? regards Hadmut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
