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 1NM0jC-0002k7-VD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:56:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CC76EE0603; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:55:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iw0-f185.google.com (mail-iw0-f185.google.com [209.85.223.185]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0971E0603 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:55:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn15 with SMTP id 15so2582254iwn.10 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 06:55:35 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=ZOQNk7kvQLrtk11kImmvUBK8R0qrY2WvazHGMlbVfXA=; b=X27ESgDTzjGeQ307JpiSjDUicWQNN6kPiV+VXzq69ba9aSMP4khzlvzUtbGM1/ud24 851zrj80lpOHhlYaFMnTY9hYRb8oPTkVIFn6Q7OOH/44IqAQPJJzcNseP++OP5f860Y9 5+jOAH9w5B8Dibx9euYrfawCTfSY+BJb7NbEU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=RDY4vBA7rG+xROWsJkuSWTvBF3H2ZjjkodDP2PsqvMHjBlW4fS5FeUpsTNQcrkJ6GS hayOEvPldzssZSHUcvxa6v93hWWwwNyOBY30Y9DIjf92Czz2v5hI96WYSV4cnIZqvV85 REL6y8XzQTKZnxKkpcfsnXfMEPBAGlBKJHcNk= 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 10.231.9.33 with SMTP id j33mr706950ibj.37.1261234535247; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 06:55:35 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <15719e8b0912182008i3f868076j4f2f4b0a301aa3c4@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> <15719e8b0912182008i3f868076j4f2f4b0a301aa3c4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:55:35 +0800 Message-ID: <53e35fd50912190655j175ff2d4m75cdd27b2873e77d@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] usb HD cannot boot without initramfs From: Xi Shen To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: a13d3fd8-b82a-4dd3-bafb-a55462e5f128 X-Archives-Hash: 0c4532b5854cc5b0ccc2d28c84ffd64c thanks you all. rootdelay=10 is what i need. On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Robert Bridge wrote: > 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. > > -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/ http://meme.yahoo.com/davidshen84/