On 02/11/2010 01:26 AM, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: > > There is a kernel option you can give to solve > this problem, in /boot/grub/grub.con add to the end > of the kernel line: > > rootdelay Xs > > where x is the amounty of time to wait before > /root is mounted, however this is valid for > everything else as well. > > play with X until you get it right. I've tried changing grub.conf into: default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title CentOS (2.6.18-164.11.1.el5.centos.plus) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-164.11.1.el5.centos.plus ro rootdelay=200 root=LABEL=/ initrd /initrd-2.6.18-164.11.1.el5.centos.plus.img title CentOS (2.6.18-164.11.1.el5) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-164.11.1.el5 ro rootdelay=200 root=LABEL=/ initrd /initrd-2.6.18-164.11.1.el5.img but there's no delay at all (the "kernel" lines may have wrapped, they are on one line in the file). The kernel source has: static unsigned int __initdata root_delay; static int __init root_delay_setup(char *str) { root_delay = simple_strtoul(str, NULL, 0); return 1; } ... __setup("rootdelay=", root_delay_setup); and later: if (root_delay) { printk(KERN_INFO "Waiting %dsec before mounting root device...\n", root_delay); ssleep(root_delay); } The message "Waiting 200sec before mounting root device..." is never printed. Putting rootdelay= after root= makes no difference. Strange... Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer, Carlsberg A/S, Computer Department Gamle Carlsberg Vej 10, DK-2500 Valby, Denmark Phone: +45 33 27 53 25, Mobile: +45 22 12 53 25 Email: mk@xxxxxx Homepage: http://www.crc.dk _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos