Bug#520923: live-initramfs: booting with a bad disk in the system takes forever

2009-03-31 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 03/24/2009 10:28 PM, Michael Prokop wrote: [Cc-ing 520...@bugs.debian.org] * Michal Suchanekmichal.sucha...@ruk.cuni.cz [20090324 18:53]: On 03/23/2009 11:28 PM, Michael Prokop wrote: An approach could be to use bootfrom=.../live-media=... in such a situation. Michal, does this help?

Bug#520923: live-initramfs: booting with a bad disk in the system takes forever

2009-03-24 Thread Michael Prokop
[Cc-ing 520...@bugs.debian.org] * Michal Suchanek michal.sucha...@ruk.cuni.cz [20090324 18:53]: On 03/23/2009 11:28 PM, Michael Prokop wrote: An approach could be to use bootfrom=.../live-media=... in such a situation. Michal, does this help? Would be great if you could try this in your 'I/O

Bug#520923: live-initramfs: booting with a bad disk in the system takes forever

2009-03-23 Thread michal . suchanek
Package: live-initramfs Severity: normal The initramfs scripts cause Linux to read quite a few sectors from disk repeatedly. As a result the boot sequence is _very_ long if a disk is bad and returns I/O errors with delay. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers stable APT

Bug#520923: live-initramfs: booting with a bad disk in the system takes forever

2009-03-23 Thread Chris Lamb
michal.sucha...@ruk.cuni.cz wrote: The initramfs scripts cause Linux to read quite a few sectors from disk repeatedly. As a result the boot sequence is _very_ long if a disk is bad and returns I/O errors with delay. Um, what do you suggest live-initramfs should do? Regards, -- ,''`.

Bug#520923: live-initramfs: booting with a bad disk in the system takes forever

2009-03-23 Thread Michael Prokop
* Chris Lamb la...@debian.org [20090323 17:45]: michal.sucha...@ruk.cuni.cz wrote: The initramfs scripts cause Linux to read quite a few sectors from disk repeatedly. As a result the boot sequence is _very_ long if a disk is bad and returns I/O errors with delay. Um, what do you suggest