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ajb

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Registered: 2008-02-06

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[SOLVED] how to set rootdelay

Hi!

Like in subject, I'd like to know how should I do this, and additional question is why i can't set it to 0.

When I append "rootdelay=1" system waits 1 sec. But when I append zero it waits 5 sec.
Is there any way to set it to 0, or maybe it should be non-zero value?
Is there any other way to change it instead of append kernel parameter? (maybe some settings in mkinitcpio?)

XFS, root=/dev/sda1, SATA drive, Arch 64

I'd be appreciate for any constructive reply,
Adam

Last edited by ajb (2009-06-25 15:17:31)

lucke

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Registered: 2004-11-30

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Re: [SOLVED] how to set rootdelay

http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=mkinit … ns;hb=HEAD

If rootdelay is less than or equal to 0, it polls for 5 seconds.

Last edited by lucke (2009-06-24 20:58:34)

ajb

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From: Poland

Registered: 2008-02-06

Posts: 31

Re: [SOLVED] how to set rootdelay

I was looking in this dir, but not manually and the keyword "rootdelay" is not in this file... so thanks a lot

I'm considering which package changed this behavior. 20. june upgrade of mkinitcpio, and 24. june kernel. It's due to mkinitcpio ugrade? Am I right? I'm just curious, because earlier I don't have this problem

So as I understood this, the best way to get fast start is append in lilo/grub rootdelay=1 ?

lucke

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Registered: 2004-11-30

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Re: [SOLVED] how to set rootdelay

It's been introduced in mkinitcpio 0.5.25 - and you have to rebuild the image to get the altered behaviour (probably during kernel upgrade).

rootdelay=1 should work.