Bug#520923: live-initramfs: booting with a bad disk in the system takes forever
Package: live-initramfs
Severity: normal
The initramfs scripts cause Linux to read quite a few sectors from disk
repeatedly. As a result the boot sequence is _very_ long if a disk is
bad and returns I/O errors with delay.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-macmini (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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