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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 21:07:45 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jos Nouwen <josn@josn.myip.org>
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Subject: Re: rootfs on USB storage device
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On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 04:22:33AM +0100, Jos Nouwen wrote:
> 
> Does anybody have a clue as to what the USB bus has to do with
> /dev/console?

It's a timing issue, and has nothing to do with /dev/console.  If you
sit and spin before you try to mount the root fs, the USB subsystem will
have enough time to find the drive.  There's a few patches that do this
in the lkml archives.

thanks,

greg k-h
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