On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, usb blog wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I had looked at the mkinitrd script of mkinitrd-3.5.22 (for Fedora2).
>
> I had noticed that in the linuxrc file, generated by mkinitrd,
> if you use usb storage than after "insmod usb-storage" there is a "sleep 5"
> command.
>
> In the script itself , it says before that sleep command:
>
> # Hack - we need a delay after loading usb-storage to give things
> # time to settle down before we start looking a block devices
>
> my question is :
> Is this a MUST only if we are booting the LINUX kernel from
> a usb mass storage device (like a USB disk)?
Yes.
> In case we are booting from a non-usb disk:is this mandatory?
No.
> and in case it is - why is it so ? what we are waiting for?
You may need it if you are mounting filesystems later on.
HTH
Oliver
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