Re: optional delay after partition detection at boot time

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 11:50:50PM -0700, subbie subbie wrote:
> >  I'm sure some of you have come across this annoying
> > issue, the kernel messages scroll way too fast for a
> > human to be able to read them (let alone vgrep them).
> > 
> >  I'm proposing two features;
> > 
> >  1. a configurable (boot time, via kernel command
> > line) delay between each and every print -- kind of
> > overkill, but may be useful sometimes. 
> >  
> >  2. a configurable (boot time, via kernel command
> > line) delay after partition detection, so that a
> > humble system administrator would be able to actually
> > find out which partition he should specify at boot
> > time in order to boot his system.   This is especially
> > annoying on newer SATA systems where sometimes disks
> > are detected as SCSI and sometimes as standard ATA
> > (depending on BIOS settings), I'm sure though that it
> > could be useful in a number of other cases.
> 
> What's the problem with "cat /proc/partitions" or "dmesg" ?
> You seem to want to slow down *every* boot just to identify
> a partition you need to find *once*. This seems overkill.

Or make the kernel print /proc/partitions when it is unable to mount root?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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