From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261903AbVFLHMa (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Jun 2005 03:12:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261904AbVFLHMa (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Jun 2005 03:12:30 -0400 Received: from willy.net1.nerim.net ([62.212.114.60]:23052 "EHLO willy.net1.nerim.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261903AbVFLHMR (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Jun 2005 03:12:17 -0400 Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 09:12:13 +0200 From: Willy Tarreau To: subbie subbie Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: optional delay after partition detection at boot time Message-ID: <20050612071213.GG28759@alpha.home.local> References: <20050612065050.99998.qmail@web30704.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050612065050.99998.qmail@web30704.mail.mud.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 11:50:50PM -0700, subbie subbie wrote: > Hello, > > I'm sure some of you have come across this annoying > issue, the kernel messages scroll way too fast for a > human to be able to read them (let alone vgrep them). > > I'm proposing two features; > > 1. a configurable (boot time, via kernel command > line) delay between each and every print -- kind of > overkill, but may be useful sometimes. > > 2. a configurable (boot time, via kernel command > line) delay after partition detection, so that a > humble system administrator would be able to actually > find out which partition he should specify at boot > time in order to boot his system. This is especially > annoying on newer SATA systems where sometimes disks > are detected as SCSI and sometimes as standard ATA > (depending on BIOS settings), I'm sure though that it > could be useful in a number of other cases. What's the problem with "cat /proc/partitions" or "dmesg" ? You seem to want to slow down *every* boot just to identify a partition you need to find *once*. This seems overkill. willy