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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 19:09:31 +0000
From: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
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To: Joseph Fannin <jhf@rivenstone.net>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>,
       William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>, wli@holomorphy.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1
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Joseph Fannin wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 12:23:52AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
>>ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11-rc1/2.6.11-rc1-mm1/
> 
> 
>>waiting-10s-before-mounting-root-filesystem.patch
>>  retry mounting the root filesystem at boot time
> 
> 
>     With this patch, initrds seem to get 'skipped'.  I think this is
> probably the cause for the reports of problems with RAID too.

This seems likely and is probably also the cause of wli's problems mentioned 
elsewhere in this thread.

I had overlooked the way that initrd's work in that part of the boot sequence. 
Will investigate.

Daniel
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