"panic: unable to mount root" => need sleep after loading SATA driver in initrd! Should udevstart wait?

[Tony Nelson]

At 12:11 AM -0400 9/15/05, Dave Jones wrote:
>On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 12:01:01AM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>
> > > Make sure you have the latest mkinitrd errata installed.
> > > (The 2.6.12 errata kernel actually has it as a dependancy).
> >
> > I'm sure I can't be the only Fedora user
> > who finds this reference to "mkinitrd errata" difficult to follow.
> > It has been explained to me, but I still find the language bizarre.
> > I assume most people will install Fedora distribution kernels from rpm's.
>
>Most people should be installing them as part of 'yum update'
>
> > If that is so, surely it would be easier - and more informative -
> > to say which rpm you are referring to?
>
>the mkinitrd update is in the mkinitrd rpm. I don't see how I could
>have made this more clear, unless I've completely missed your point?

Umm, I have the same problem as Tim with "mkinitrd errata" and "errata
kernel".  I have to suppose that these terms refer to patches to the kernel
stuff, and that they may be provided to us as RPM packages in the Fedora
updates.
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