--- trunk/mkinitrd-magellan/mkinitrd.in	2011/09/07 17:45:14	1514
+++ trunk/mkinitrd-magellan/mkinitrd.in	2011/09/07 17:46:29	1515
@@ -809,6 +809,10 @@
 	fi
 done
 
+# respect rootdelay kernel param
+add_initrd 'for i in $(cat /proc/cmdline); do case ${i} in rootdelay=*) ROOTDELAY="${i#*=}";; esac; done'
+add_initrd 'if [ ! -z "${ROOTDELAY}" ]; then echo "-- Requested a rootdelay of ${ROOTDELAY} seconds ..."; sleep ${ROOTDELAY};fi'
+
 # lvm support
 if [ -n "${vg_list}" ]
 then