Re: wait for the boot device
Ian McDonald <iam@st-andrews.ac.uk> writes:
> Have you seen bug 501969?
Yes, superficially, but the issue isn't specific to LILO. And it
won't be solved by changing what you wait for, unless your root device
is a bare partition, because RAID and LVM activation isn't
periodically rerun while polling for the root device. And this part
is right, because RAID shouldn't be assembled before all constituent
devices had a chance to appear. But spotting this isn't simple:
modprobe scsi_wait_scan accounts for the asynchronous SCSI scan only.
One could also force synchronous scanning by setting scan=sync for
scsi_mod (the default changed not so long ago) and solve the SCSI part
another way. Other types of devices may have similar issues, but I
never met or heard of them, so solving the SCSI case would probably
solve the largest part of the problem.
--
Feri.
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