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Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 14:35:01 -0800
From: Samuel Flory <sflory@rackable.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB HardDisk Booting 2.4.20
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Alan Cox wrote:

>On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 17:27, Wesley Wright wrote:
>  
>
>>My tests show that it seems to work, and I haven't noticed any odd side
>>affects by initcall-ing the usb devices (concern over this topic is why
>>I enabled it for static USB MSD only).
>>
>>Does this seem a reasonable solution, or does anyone have something more
>>elegant?
>>    
>>
>
>Is there a reason for not using initrd for this. That should let you
>use any kind of root device even ones requiring user space work before
>the real root is mounted.
>  
>

  The problem I've seen is there is a several second delay before the 
usb device is availble.  My solution was to stick a sleep in my initrd 
before attempting to mount /.  A more rational patch might be to retry 
mounting / after a few seconds delay before giving up.  I think I saw 
patch doing this on the usb list.

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Sam Flory  <sflory@rackable.com>



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