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pofkezas

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From: Brooklyn, NY

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[SOLVED] Waiting 10 seconds for device 802 ...

After some kernel upgrade in the past my system started to take extra 10 seconds to boot due to waiting for some "device 802." After the 10 seconds it says,

Root device '802' doesn't exist, attempting to create it
/bin/mknod /dev/root b 8 2

Here's a screenshot just in case:
http://imgur.com/qUen0.jpg
The system still boots fine, but I would like to know if there's some way to find out what the device 802 is and how to make the system create it immediately without the 10 second delay. Thanks for your help.

Last edited by pofkezas (2009-08-24 04:06:06)

djszapi

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Re: [SOLVED] Waiting 10 seconds for device 802 ...

It's a wifi or etherned card pci/usb card maybe. Is every driver okay for such devices? What do you use ?

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pofkezas

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From: Brooklyn, NY

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Re: [SOLVED] Waiting 10 seconds for device 802 ...

I don't have a wifi card, I only use an ethernet card integrated into my motherboard which uses the 'forcedeth' driver. It's  loaded from the modules array in rc.conf and works fine.

Last edited by pofkezas (2009-07-13 04:07:25)

hoschi

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From: Ulm (Germany)

Registered: 2008-11-03

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Re: [SOLVED] Waiting 10 seconds for device 802 ...

Here the same with a self compiled vanilla-kernel. No wifi. No other changes.

pofkezas

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From: Brooklyn, NY

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Re: [SOLVED] Waiting 10 seconds for device 802 ...

I know this is a somewhat old post, but I figured I'd post the solution that I found. This is basically a problem with lilo. It's discussed on the arch mailing list here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/arch-dev-pu … 08355.html

Here's a quote with a solution:

in lilo.conf:

Remove
root=/dev/....
and add
append="root=/dev/..." (or addappend=, see the lilo manpage)

Or you can switch to GRUB of course. Hope this helps if anyone still has the same problem.

hoschi

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Re: [SOLVED] Waiting 10 seconds for device 802 ...

thank you!