Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758088AbZDOIln (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:41:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752730AbZDOIlc (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:41:32 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:38777 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751927AbZDOIlb (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:41:31 -0400 Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:40:39 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Linux USB kernel mailing list , Greg KH , Alan Stern , LKML , "Rafael J. Wysocki" Subject: Re: USB storage no-boot regression (bisected) Message-ID: <20090415094039.3ff3ff2e@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <49E546C4.1060001@garzik.org> References: <49E4FAC6.1030400@garzik.org> <20090414183807.3baf72ed@infradead.org> <49E546C4.1060001@garzik.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.14.7; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 668 Lines: 19 > If this change added an implicit initramfs requirement, that is a pretty > major regression. USB root has always needed an initramfs. On some boxes it might happen to work most of the time because of other implicit delays. You were just lucky in the past. If you are so initramfs averse you could try hacking the kernel to try remounting the root every few seconds for a bit if it fails rather than giving up. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/