On Sat, 07 Jan 2012 15:11:54 +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Hello, > > Camaleón a écrit : >> >> I wonder how did you finally reached the conclusion for the >> "rootdelay", I wouldn't either have imagined so after finding any clue >> over Internet, forums and mailing lists... even after reading the >> Relase Notes, you still have to connect the points to identify your >> booting problem with the solution showed there. > > OP : "Without it, the root file system is not found and it drops you > into the initramfs prompt." > > Release notes : "The usual symptoms are that the boot will fail because > the root file system cannot be mounted and you are dropped into a debug > shell." > > Quite similar, isn't it ?
For "the old guard", yes. For average users, not that similar :-) >> It is still unclear why you're seeing the error, unless you're at any >> of the mentioned scenarios (using USB disks, RAID or LILO) the timing >> problem should not bit you. > > OP : " We typically have mdadm style software raid on all boot systems, > using /dev/md0 typically as root file system." > > To the OP : > This is not specific to Squeeze, the issue was already reported in Etch > and Lenny release notes. And it is not a kernel issue but an initramfs > issue. Uh? I did miss that message... ah, okay, it was said on a reply to Alexey. OTOH, "Release Notes" do not specifiy what kind of RAID triggers the problem (hardware raid, linux raid, fakeraid...). For instance, I have adaptec hardware RAID controllers and didn't notice this on my Lenny installs. I agree with Francis this is not "normal" or something expected. At least is not something I have experienced before. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2012.01.07.16.07...@gmail.com