Could not detect stabilization, waiting 10 seconds

[Dave Jones]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 11:06:18PM +0000, Tom Horsley wrote:
 > Just booted newest rawhide 1686 kernel, and just before the normal
 > boot messages start (I have rhgb removed from boot options), this
 > message I've never before seen appears at the top of the screen:
 > 
 > Could not detect stabilization, waiting 10 seconds
 > 
 > What the heck does that mean? (Everything seems to have booted OK
 > after it said that).
 > 
 > kernel-2.6.27.4-79.fc10.i686 was the one just installed.
 
This is from mkinitrd, not the kernel.
It means that it couldn't tell when the kernel had done enumerating
hard disks, so decided to play it safe and wait a while.

What storage controller do you have?

	Dave

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