Luben Tuikov wrote: > --- Mike Anderson <andmike@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> The issue also results in the device discovery not completing by the time >> the module load completes resulting in the initrd not finding the boot >> disk http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6045 > > They are not wed. [...] > The boot device may not > be accessible right away, the kernel may need to wait for it to become > available. This will be more and more true in the future with more exotic > protocols and infrastructures. More precisely, the _BIOS_ or an equivalent has to wait for the _boot_ device (to load the kernel from). The _kernel_ has to wait for the device carrying the _initial root filesystem_. If the final working root filesystem resides on a device or network resource which is more or less slow to be discovered, a minimal initial root filesystem is put onto a RAM disk which is loaded together with the kernel (a.k.a. an initrd). -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-==- --== ---== http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
