Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 Jan 2005 17:16:00 -0500 | From | William Park <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Wait and retry mounting root device |
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On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 12:37:16PM +0000, Daniel Drake wrote: > This is based a patch by William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca> included in > 2.6.10-mm1, in order to fix booting from usb-storage devices which no longer > make their partitions immediately available. > > While William's patch fixed the situation where you boot from a "root=8:1" > parameter (to correspond to /dev/sda1), it does not allow you to use > "root=/dev/sda1" (which apparently worked in 2.6.9 and earlier), because > the name-->dev_t discovery is done before the "retry" loop starts, and is > not retried during the loop. > > This patch, which replaces William's, solves the above problems.
It's funny... Your patch does the opposite. It works for root=/dev/sda1 from the kernel command line, but not from Lilo or 'root=8:1' on command line. :-)
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