Bug#401916: Bug #401916 - any progress?
On Fri, February 23, 2007 12:11, maximilian attems said:
> On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, David Härdeman wrote:
>
>> maks...any progress on this bug?
>
> no.
> latest initramfs-tools is on mentors without any #401916 yet.
>
>> A new package which exports ROOTDELAY would be nice, then the rest can
>> be fixed in udev...
>
> well i don't feel that is enough.
That what is enough? Just having a sleep boot arg?
> mika's case is general enough, it affects lilo on almost any
> root beside ide and quick sata controller
> and grub for lvm2, evms and mdadm on those too.
Sorry, I don't follow, what does lilo and grub have to do with waiting in
the initramfs for the root blockdev to appear? Was that a reference to bug
409820?
> all the other distribution add some bandaid aka stupid sleep
> for the case of usb, ..
> and for a quick glance over those initramfs generators
> this would be done on mkinitramfs time.
> right?
Yes, initramfs-based fixed sleep for a couple of seconds (which may still
break in some scenarios) or a hardcoded root device (which allows the
initramfs script to wait until that root device node appears) are the two
solution I've seen from a quick survey.
I still think a user-configurable sleep (and/or a user configurable device
node to wait for) would be the best option at this point followed by a
more complete solution later.
> sorry, really busy on a physics workshop so no code right now.
> but happy about your ping!
Good luck with your workshop
> salutations amicales
Med vänliga hälsningar.
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David Härdeman
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