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From: Xi Shen <davidshen84@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] usb HD cannot boot without initramfs
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:56:19
Message-Id: 53e35fd50912190655j175ff2d4m75cdd27b2873e77d@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] usb HD cannot boot without initramfs by Robert Bridge
1 thanks you all. rootdelay=10 is what i need.
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4 On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Robert Bridge <robert@××××××××.com> wrote:
5 > On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 1:59 AM, Kyle Bader <kyle.bader@×××××.com> wrote:
6 >> Is it rootdelay or scandelay?
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8 > rootdelay according to the stuff I found online. It's a delay to the
9 > mounting of the root file-system.
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11 > And regarding 30s, I picked that on the basis of better too long than
12 > too short. I had similar problems at one point, and found anything
13 > less than 10 was unreliable, and even at 10 it would occasionally
14 > fail.
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21 Best Regards,
22 David Shen
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