From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>
Cc: juhl-lkml@dif.dk, marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: waiting 10s before mounting root filesystem?
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 01:49:05 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041231014905.30b05a11.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041231035834.GA2421@node1.opengeometry.net>
William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>
> - printk("VFS: Cannot open root device \"%s\" or %s\n",
> - root_device_name, b);
> - printk("Please append a correct \"root=\" boot option\n");
> + if (--tryagain) {
> + printk (KERN_WARNING "VFS: Waiting %dsec for root device...\n", tryagain);
> + ssleep (1);
> + goto retry;
> + }
> + printk (KERN_CRIT "VFS: Cannot open root device \"%s\" or %s\n", root_device_name, b);
> + printk (KERN_CRIT "Please append a correct \"root=\" boot option\n");
Why is this patch needed? If it is to offer the user a chance to insert
the correct medium or to connect the correct device, why not rely upon the
user doing that thing and then hitting reset?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-31 9:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-27 19:56 William Park
2004-12-27 20:10 ` Trent Lloyd
2004-12-27 21:23 ` Andreas Unterkircher
2004-12-28 1:54 ` Eric Lammerts
2004-12-29 0:59 ` William Park
2004-12-29 1:38 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-12-29 1:56 ` William Park
2004-12-29 12:49 ` Paulo Marques
2004-12-29 19:15 ` William Park
2004-12-29 19:34 ` Paulo Marques
2004-12-29 20:59 ` William Park
2004-12-29 21:26 ` Andreas Steinmetz
2004-12-31 19:32 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-12-29 21:53 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2004-12-29 22:56 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-12-30 15:25 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-12-30 23:45 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-12-31 1:45 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-12-31 3:58 ` William Park
2004-12-31 4:41 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-12-31 11:31 ` Paulo Marques
2004-12-31 9:49 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-12-31 8:28 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-12-31 11:40 ` Andrew Morton
2004-12-31 11:26 ` Paulo Marques
2004-12-31 8:58 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-12-31 11:42 ` Andrew Morton
2004-12-31 12:04 ` Paulo Marques
2004-12-31 17:36 ` William Park
2004-12-31 17:48 ` Tomasz Torcz
2004-12-31 18:18 ` William Park
2004-12-31 0:22 ` William Park
[not found] <fa.nc4oh06.1j1872e@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.nalafoa.1ih25aa@ifi.uio.no>
2004-12-31 12:33 ` Bodo Eggert
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