Re: [PATCH] Wait and retry mounting root device (revised)

[Randy.Dunlap]

Al Viro wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 02:54:24AM +0000, Daniel Drake wrote:
>
> > Retry up to 20 times if mounting the root device fails.  This fixes booting
> > from usb-storage devices, which no longer make their partitions immediately
> > available.
>
>
> Sigh...  So we can very well get device coming up in the middle of a loop
> and get the actual attempts to mount the sucker in wrong order.  How nice...
>
> Folks, that's not a solution.  And kludges like that really have no
> business being there - they only hide the problem and make it harder
> to reproduce.

Is there a solution other than initrd/initramfs ?

Thanks,
--
~Randy
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