Hmm, it seems you are right. The boot messages say the same thing you 
mentioned. So what exactly is the problem then mentioned I ask...
Well, it seems I cannot help any further in this case :(

THank you for enlightening.

Richard

Am Dienstag 03 April 2007 18:45 schrieb Iustin Pop:
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 02:17:44PM +0200, Richard Homonnai wrote:
> > That is exactly what I meant. The name is quite a bad choose, but this is
> > definitely it. It says "if /dev/wdX is not open, don't start (or halt if
> > already started) the watchdog timer." So, if you are in boot
> > process, /dev/wd0 just sits there. And when watchdogd gets started, then
> > it is open. So this option ist what helped me, and there were no false
> > negatives yet :)
>
> You're not exactly right. This config setting has not relation to what
> happens before /dev/wdX is first opened. It has effect only on two
> cases:
>   - process closes /dev/wdX
>   - system is being shutdown
>
> When the module (or builtin, it doesn't matter) is first initialised,
> the physical device is initialised and immediately disabled, *no matter
> what the value of WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT is*. Only on subsequent closes this
> variable has effect.
>
> This is by looking at the 2.6.20 source. Don't know if this was
> different before.
>
> regards,
> iustin
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