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From: Miernik <public@××××××××××××××.name>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: VFS: cannot open root device "sda2" or unknown-block(2,0)
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:36:31
Message-Id: 20080710022044.35DC.0.NOFFLE@debian107.local
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: cannot open root device "sda2" or unknown-block(2,0) by Robert Bridge
1 Robert Bridge <robert@××××××××.com> wrote:
2 > The first is us an initrd to delay the mounting root until the USB
3 > device is available.
4
5 Thanks, this fixed it. I mean did compile with genkernel --menuconfig to
6 cut out some unneeded stuff and still get a initrd.
7
8 > The second is to pass an argument to the kernel that does the same
9 > thing, IIRC "sleep=30", but I have never used this particular trick,
10 > so you will want to check it.
11
12 Tried it - didn't work.
13
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