[Solved] Boot messages waiting 10 secodns for device...

Question

Hello.
When i'm boot my arch i got message waiting 10 secdonds for device /dev/sda1 (arch partition).
I have in mkinitcpio this modules:
ahci ext4 scsi_mod sd_mod libata.
That's all what can i do run arch wihout waiting 10 secodns?
Last edited by SpeedVin (2009-06-26 13:56:57)

Answer 1

paranoos wrote:
after a little digging, i realized this is caused by mkinitcpio. it defaults to 10 seconds, but most drives don't need to wait at all. this delay is available for people booting off usb devices which take a few seconds to initialize. the default should be no waiting, with an option for those who need it (by setting the kernel rootdelay manually).
afaict this is a bug, here is the fix
edit /lib/initcpio/init; where it says
# If rootdelay is empty or not a non-negative integer, set it to 10
if [ -z "${rootdelay}" -o ! "${rootdelay}" -ge 0 ]; then
export rootdelay=10
fi
change it to export rootdelay=0 -- this way, the default is not to wait
also edit /lib/initcpio/init_functions; where it says
if [ "$2" -gt 0 ]; then
seconds="$2"
change -gt 0 to -ge 0 -- this way, it will accept a setting of 0 and not ignore it.
Great that's working thamk you