Bug#422217: linux-image-2.6.20-1-686: SCSI disks initialised too late for mdadm

[Wagner Ferenc <wferi@niif.hu>]

Hi,

just to add one more data point: I run into the same issue (well,
2.6.20 had other problems, so I turned to
http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~tobiasnadler/linux/kernelcompile.html for
some help with 2.6.21), but: adding a delay is sooo bad solution, it
even has serious support (see rootdelay in man initramfs-tools).
What's more, if not found, initramfs checks for the root device ten
times a second for 3 minutes before dropping into the debug shell.
But the premounts scripts (mdadm, lvm, multipath, etc.) are only run
once, so this doesn't help in such cases.  I contemplated inventing
some udev rules to get the premount stuff (multipath and lvm in my
case) happen automatically in the background.  That would make the
root device appear and trigger a new try to mount it.  I didn't get to
that yet...
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Cheers,
Feri.