linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.34 on Samsung P460: reset after "Waiting for /dev to be fully populated"

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Date:	Wed, 26 May 2010 15:20:40 +0200
From:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
To:	Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@...igo.de>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.34 on Samsung P460: reset after "Waiting for /dev to be fully 
	populated"

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 15:18, Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@...igo.de> wrote:
> On 05/26/10 10:50, Kay Sievers wrote:
>>
>> A behavior like this is usually a kernel module that gets loaded which
>> hangs the box. The message comes from distro specific stuff, and not
>> from udev itself, so we can't know what exactly it is doing.
>>
>> Did you wait for 3 minutes at least to let the boot processes run into
>> their timeouts?
>>
>
> I waited for 10 minutes, but there was no additional action.
> Its stuck.
>
>> Are you using an initramfs? If not, does init=/bin/sh work?
>>
>
> I am using an initrd. init=/bin/sh did not work; it complained
> about a missing boot disk.

Try rdinit=/bin/sh and you should/might get a shell from the initramfs image?

Kay
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