Re: Kernel hangs while initialising usb devices

> Hi guys,
> 

Hi

> a friend of mine, who is quite familiar to gentoo has buildet a new
> kernel for the device mapper for me in Whiite. 
[...]
> Both kernel work until the find an usb device (external lan or internal
> wlan chip). The they write initialise it. And will wait forever. If you
> press reset you got a message (with a different time stamp so the wii is
> still working).

>From what you describe, it looks like you are using the wrong root= option in the kernel command line for your boot environment.

Please, see http://www.gc-linux.org/wiki/MINI:KernelPreviewFive#Root_device_name_changes

When booting via BootMii, the root option must be 'root=/dev/mmcblk0p2' to mount the root filesystem from the 2nd partition of your SD card.
When booting via HBC, the root option must be 'root=/dev/rvlsda2' to mount the root filesystem from the 2nd partition of your SD card.

Note that the kernel waits _forever_ until the device containing the root filesystem shows up when you specify the 'rootwait' command line option.

Cheers,
Albert


      

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