On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 22:59 +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
But the lapic rootdelay=10 is a good tip...as soon as I have finished the real work I am doing here I will give that a go.
Actually that's two seperate options, the lapic is needed as my HP laptop disables it's APIC by default.
I found without the rootdelay option, it would try mounting the root device before the pendrive had worked out it wasn't a paperweight :-)
Have a look in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
HTH
Chris