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>From : "Matthew Wilcox" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To : "Joel Soete" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC : "parisc-linux" [EMAIL PROTECTED],"kyle"
[EMAIL PROTECTED],"aragorn" [EMAIL PROTECTED],"tsg45800"
[EMAIL PROTECTED],"353480" [EMAIL PROTECTED],"debian-hppa"
debian-hppa@lists.debian.org
Date : Tue, 21 Feb 2006 10:26:06 -0700
Subject : Re: [parisc-linux] Re: Bug#353480: yaird: [hppa] /dev/sd* device
nodes not created and eth0 not enabled
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 06:00:43PM +0100, Joel Soete wrote:
> > Just a small update to confirm that works fine:
> > INIT: version 2.86 booting
> > Starting the hotplug events dispatcher: udevd.
> > Synthesizing the initial hotplug events...done.
> > Waiting for /dev to be fully populated...
> > done (timeout).
>
> How is timing out "works fine"? Works better, sure, but why is it
> timing out?
>
Right: works far better ;<)
That said, I have a look in more detail about 'timeout' and it seems to me
that this system just need more time to complete its '/dev full population'. I
so increased timeout const to 90 (60 is not yet enough) and it finished
without any more timing out (for smp and up 32bit kernel):
[...]
[42949443.400000] 356k freed
INIT: version 2.86 booting
Starting the hotplug events dispatcher: udevd.
Synthesizing the initial hotplug events...done.
Waiting for /dev to be fully populated...done.
Will now activate swap.
swapon on /dev/md/1
[42949602.860000] Adding 385976k swap on /dev/md/1. Priority:-1 extents:1
across:385976k
Done activating swap.
Will now check root file system.
[...]
Hth,
Joel
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