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Autore: richard lucassen
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To: dng
Oggetto: Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab
On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 16:50:29 +0200
Didier Kryn <kryn@???> wrote:

>     I had a problem around 15 years ago booting a Powerpc SBC with
> rootfs on a USB disk and without initramfs. around 15 years ago. Even
> though the disk was powered on its own, it didn't start spinning
> before the driver started it. I solved it by adding a delay to the
> kernel before mounting the rootfs - there was a parameter for that.
>
>     Maybe it's just enough to add such a delay before trying to mount
> your USB disk.


That was the "rootwait" parameter as I said somewhere. Used for USB and
MMC disks.

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