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From: Marcus Wanner <marcusw@cox.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] usb HD cannot boot without initramfs
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:52:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B2C31EB.7010204@cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15719e8b0912181639m7f408449m78ed45b967a8594@mail.gmail.com>

On 12/18/2009 7:39 PM, Robert Bridge wrote:
> Try passing a rootdelay option to the kernel to allow the kernels USB
> probe to complete before it tries to mount the USB device.
>
> e.g. kernel /boot/kernel root=/dev/usbhdd rootdelay=30 in grub
>    
30 seconds is a bit much, IMHO. USB probes in my experience never take 
more than 5.

Marcus



  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-19  1:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-17  7:47 [gentoo-user] usb HD cannot boot without initramfs Xi Shen
2009-12-17  8:01 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-12-17 10:10   ` Xi Shen
2009-12-17 14:36     ` Steffen Loos
2009-12-18  1:14       ` Xi Shen
2009-12-18  1:33         ` Bruce Hill
2009-12-19  0:27           ` Kyle Bader
2009-12-19  0:39             ` Robert Bridge
2009-12-19  1:52               ` Marcus Wanner [this message]
2009-12-19  1:59               ` Kyle Bader
2009-12-19  4:08                 ` Robert Bridge
2009-12-19 14:55                   ` Xi Shen
2009-12-17 15:14     ` Dale
2009-12-17 14:22 ` Willie Wong
2009-12-18  1:11   ` Xi Shen

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