On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 12:23:52AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11-rc1/2.6.11-rc1-mm1/
> waiting-10s-before-mounting-root-filesystem.patch
> retry mounting the root filesystem at boot time
With this patch, initrds seem to get 'skipped'. I think this is
probably the cause for the reports of problems with RAID too.
Just after loading the initrd (RAMDISK: Loading 5284KiB [1 disk]
into ram disk...) the kernel tries to mount the real root fs -- if the
necessary drivers are built-in, it proceeds from there; if not, not.
I'm guessing that when the initrd code calls mount_block_root() to
mount the ramdisk, this bit makes it decide to try to mount the real
root instead:
if (!ROOT_DEV) {
ROOT_DEV = name_to_dev_t(saved_root_name);
create_dev(name, ROOT_DEV, root_device_name);
}
Perhaps this should not be done until after the first attempt to
mount fails? Sorry, I haven't had nearly enough coffee today to
attempt to make a patch. :-)
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