On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 22:15:56 +0300 "Alexey Dobriyan" <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > commit f29d3b23238e1955a8094e038c72546e99308e61 aka > "fastboot: Make libata initialization even more async" > results in no findable /dev/sda2 to mount / here. > > Kernel correctly sees sda as 750GB drive and the rest too. > > CONFIG_ATA_PIIX is in use, everything built-in, plain partitions, > no initrd, DM, MD etc. hmm. no initrd; can you try an experiment? if you edit init/do_mounts.c and find the "async_synchronize_full" call. that is just after a while() loop. Can you put another call to synchronize_full to also just before that while loop and see if that fixes it ? -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html