Some people have reported some success with hacking the kernel to pause several seconds before attempting to mount the root fs while it probes for USB devices...
Matt On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 04:38:47PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 04:17:08PM +0100, James Pattinson wrote: > > Hi > > > > Thanks for your response. I've attached my bootup dmesg log, and the .config i > > use. As you can see from the log - I'm using /dev/vg00/lvol1 as my root fs at > > the moment, so I could actually get a system booted. > > > > You can see that the hard disk gets detected after my initial ramdisk has run > > and mounted the real root. > > > > Have you any idea what would trigger the detection of the USB device? I would > > have thought it should have been detected around line 82 of the boot log, then > > it would have been ready to be mounted as root. > > The problem is, that it takes a amount of time after the USB system is > initialized, for USB devices to be found on the bus. In the meantime, > the kernel has gone on and tried to use root on a device that hasn't > been found yet. > > A few other people have reported this problem, and currently there > doesn't seem to be any workaround. > > Sorry, > > greg k-h > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users -- Matthew Dharm Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maintainer, Linux USB Mass Storage Driver What, are you one of those Microsoft-bashing Linux freaks? -- Customer to Greg User Friendly, 2/10/1999
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