On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Lennart Poettering <lenn...@poettering.net>wrote:
> > > So, in the non-initrd case: what does rootwait do on the kernel > cmdline? > > > And what happens if it is not used? > > > > rootwait [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to > show up. > > Useful for devices that are detected > asynchronously > > (e.g. USB and MMC devices). > > Yeah, that's what I read, too, but I cannot make sense of it. See above: > what is different from when it is not used? Or to be precise: what does > the kernel precisely do when rootwait is *not* passed? Hi, AFAIK, without rootwait, it just tries to mount root and execute init failing if the device isn't there. With rootwait, it *waits* for the device to become available before mounting root.
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