[E3-hacking] Why won't my E3 boot?

[Matt Callow]

David Given wrote:
> Jon Masters wrote:
> [...]
>> Well, if they're in the standard initcall table then the driver init
>> functions are called in the order the drivers were built into the kernel
>> - directory order during compile and subsequent built-in.o processing.
> 
> Any USB devices will only have their drivers inited after the USB bus
> has been enumerated, which happens in the background. This means that
> block devices frequently only show up *after* the kernel tries to mount
> them, which is a pain. There is a kernel option to deal with this ---
> rootdelay --- which causes the kernel to pause for the specified number
> of seconds before mounting. You could try fiddling with that...
> 
I did try the rootdelay option, but it seems only to delay the rootfs
mounting, not the kernel autoconfig of the network. That still fails

Matt