On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 12:34:13AM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 02:54:24AM +0000, Daniel Drake wrote: > > Retry up to 20 times if mounting the root device fails. This fixes > > booting from usb-storage devices, which no longer make their > > partitions immediately available. > > Sigh... So we can very well get device coming up in the middle of a > loop and get the actual attempts to mount the sucker in wrong order. > How nice... > > Folks, that's not a solution. And kludges like that really have no > business being there - they only hide the problem and make it harder > to reproduce.
The problem at hand is that USB key drive (which is my immediate concern) takes 5sec to show up. So, it's much better approach than 'initrd'. -- William Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Toronto, Canada Slackware Linux -- because I can type. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
