Re: [PATCH][2.5] wait for devices to wake up before mounting root, but don't hang

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 05:31:03PM -0600, Lightweight patch manager wrote:
> Don't hang while waiting for root device to come up
> 
> Someone mentioned that USB devices etc. can't be used for root fs since 
> it's probably not yet available at boot time. This approach is broken, for 
> sure, but it's at least supposed to rescue a small part of the whole (if 
> you see a panic, you know something went atree).

Why only loop for 60 seconds?

I prefer the patch posted previously by Eric Lammerts that just loops
forever.  But that's just me :)

thanks,

greg k-h