From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261958AbUL0UMj (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Dec 2004 15:12:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261968AbUL0UMj (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Dec 2004 15:12:39 -0500 Received: from sweep.bur.st ([202.61.227.58]:5653 "EHLO stutter.bur.st") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261958AbUL0UKR (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Dec 2004 15:10:17 -0500 Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 04:10:15 +0800 From: Trent Lloyd To: William Park , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: waiting 10s before mounting root filesystem? Message-ID: <20041227201015.GB18911@sweep.bur.st> References: <20041227195645.GA2282@node1.opengeometry.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041227195645.GA2282@node1.opengeometry.net> X-Random-Number: 9.81640062318437e+302 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is really suited to the task of an initrd, then you can spin until the usb storage device comes up in a bash script or something similar. Cheers, Trent > How do I make the kernel to wait about 10s before attempting to mount > root filesystem? Is there obscure kernel parameter? > > I can load the kernel from /dev/fd0, then mount /dev/hda2 as root > filesystem. But, I can't seem to mount /dev/sda1 (USB key drive) as > root filesystem. All relevant USB and SCSI modules are compiled into > the kernel. I think kernel is too fast in panicking. I would like the > kernel to wait about 10s until 'usb-storage' and 'sd_mod' work out all > the details. > > -- > William Park > Open Geometry Consulting, Toronto, Canada > Linux solution for data processing. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- Trent Lloyd Bur.st Networking Inc.