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

[Jon Masters]

On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 15:31 +0100, 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.

Hmmm. The device will be detected then, but the driver is still built-in
and its init function should therefore still run when the init calls are
processed. It's a question of probing vs. just being built-in.

> 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...

That's a different issue. That's waiting on enumeration, which is not
correctly handled at the moment IMHO (without udev hack jobs). And
rootdelay is widely regarded as a huge giant ugly hack :-)

Jon.