On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 09:55:54 +0200
"J. Fahrner" <jf@???> wrote:

> Am 2020-06-13 09:49, schrieb richard lucassen:
> > What is on that disk? Why not make that disk the root filesystem and
> > pass "rootwait" to the kernel?
>
> I'm afraid that won't work either. If there are problems mounting the
> disk at this early stage, even the root filesystem will not mount.

That is why there is a rootwait option:

rootwait        [KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up.
Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously (e.g. USB and MMC
devices).

It waits for the USB HDD to spin up.

R.

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