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.
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