Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:02:15 -0800 | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Wait and retry mounting root device (revised) |
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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.
Is there a solution other than initrd/initramfs ?
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