From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NLqdt-0006sz-34 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:10:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 22BA2E06F3; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:08:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f174.google.com (mail-yx0-f174.google.com [209.85.210.174]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02324E06F3 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:08:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxe4 with SMTP id 4so3358344yxe.32 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:08:56 -0800 (PST) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.40.35 with SMTP id n35mr7539743ybn.282.1261195736616; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:08:56 -0800 (PST) X-Originating-IP: [89.204.201.19] In-Reply-To: <854dca5c0912181759jaf4008uf7160d1a874ef275@mail.gmail.com> References: <53e35fd50912162347r5955c7a9tca2901167ca4f2ef@mail.gmail.com> <200912171001.16471.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <53e35fd50912170210m7c89eb6ft2ae02c5e9b39bcab@mail.gmail.com> <4B2A41D6.70209@gmx.net> <53e35fd50912171714q38d44fdfkbdfd9794654df935@mail.gmail.com> <20091218013313.GA7894@silas64> <854dca5c0912181627p4dfed9dv4a3c40e9a2117bf5@mail.gmail.com> <15719e8b0912181639m7f408449m78ed45b967a8594@mail.gmail.com> <854dca5c0912181759jaf4008uf7160d1a874ef275@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:08:56 +0000 Message-ID: <15719e8b0912182008i3f868076j4f2f4b0a301aa3c4@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] usb HD cannot boot without initramfs From: Robert Bridge To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: d147b640-3480-4aba-8f7d-31f8e2d6a5c2 X-Archives-Hash: 54c92167f94d4876dc90e58ab8625113 On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 1:59 AM, Kyle Bader wrote: > Is it rootdelay or scandelay? rootdelay according to the stuff I found online. It's a delay to the mounting of the root file-system. And regarding 30s, I picked that on the basis of better too long than too short. I had similar problems at one point, and found anything less than 10 was unreliable, and even at 10 it would occasionally fail.