Re: optional delay after partition detection at boot time

[David Lang]

> Interesting. How many total partitions do you have ? I ask this because
> David Alan Gilbert proposed a patch to dump the partition list on the
> screen upon panic. Perhaps it's larger than the screen in you case ? If
> you have more than 25 partitions, to you think they can fit with 2 or 3
> columns ?

This machine has 16 SATA drives with 1 partition each plus a (hardware) 
mirrored pair of SCSI drives with 4 partions, so only 20 partitions total 
in my config. however there are people who use more drives then this.

David Lang

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