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SubjectRe: optional delay after partition detection at boot time
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

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