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

[Matt Callow]

Matthew Garrett wrote:
> This is something of a guess, but:
> 
> Building drivers into the kernel doesn't guarantee the order that 
> they'll be initialised in, and the kernel won't block on enumerating the 
> USB bus. If you have the camera module built-in, then it may end up 
> altering timing in such a way that the USB device doesn't get bound 
> until after the kernel has done IP config. The standard way around this 
> is to have a ramdisk that loops until the expected devices are found.
> 
I've also found a patch
http://www.lammerts.org/software/kernelpatches/nfsroot-hotplug_ethernet.patch
which makes the kernel wait for a network device to appear. Seem to work
too.

Matt