Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Tue, 2013-07-02 at 09:24 +0200, Sébastien Dailly wrote: > Le 2013-07-01 23:18, Ben Hutchings a écrit : > > Thanks for answering so quickly, > > > > > How is the root disk attached (SATA, PATA, USB)? > > The disk is SATA2 > > > > > Have you tried using the 'rootdelay=N' parameter (N is number of > > seconds to wait for the root device to be ready) to the kernel > > command line? > > I've tried 'rootdelay=15' and indeed, this was enought for allowing the > computer to boot. But this leads to some questions : > > 1) is this the correct behavior ? I'm booting debian on this PC since > the 2.6.39 kernel (maybe older ?), and I've never encountered this > problem… It's not correct. I was just trying to establish whether the kernel could access the disk at all. > 2) should I fear before upgrading other computers ? How could I check > if this regression can happen ? > > Thanks for the help and the support. Sorry, I don't know. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Life would be so much easier if we could look at the source code.
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