Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] USB HardDisk Booting 2.4.20 | From | Wesley Wright <> | Date | 01 Feb 2003 10:00:51 -0500 |
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> I'm personnaly using this simple patch with success with an usb disk on > key. It adds an option "setuptime" which waits the requested amount of ms > before booting. I use it with "setuptime=2500" and my USB works fine. > > I think it could be of a more general use, and perhaps it could be > accepted into mainstream if it doesn't break anything ?
The reason I took the other approach is that I didn't want to introduce an arbitrary delay into my startup. I have varying speed machines (ranging from P90 up to Athlon 1800) and wanted a solution consistent across all of them. I think that you can accomplish the delay startup through initrd without a kernel change.
Delay solutions don't directly deal with the race between mounting and detecting the USB device though. If I select a value to small then I still don't get a successful mount.
Maybe this isn't a major concern for this area of the kernel though... at this point there really aren't any other tasks so the delay should have very consistent results.
Thanks, -- Wes
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