Rather weird, could be that the delay is too long, it should be more like 10!
http://codtech.com/wiki/index.php/CULT:_Kernel_command_line_parameters#rootdelay
I have had a similar problem ... on one server I use USB backup disks
which I swap on a regular base. On the occasion when I had to reboot
it halted with the fsck not being able to check it ... so I put
it in and nver looked back.
Jobst
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 09:44:41AM +0100, Mogens Kjaer (mk@xxxxxx) wrote:
> 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
>
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