Separate /usr partition and initramfs not working anymore

[ykram]

I had used this document originally https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Early_Userspace_Mounting to setup an initramfs for my 3.4.2 kernel and had no issues. However, I recently upgraded to 3.5.4 and added ATH9k support to my kernel. When booting, my initramfs does not work anymore. I tried to re-create it for my 3.5.4 kernel but I'm still having issues.

Upon boot, when initramfs runs, the script fails to mount /dev/sda1 to /mnt/sda1 with the following message:
Mounting rootfs
mount: mounting /dev/sda1 on /mnt/root failed: No such file or directory
Error with uuidlabel_root

I verified the command its trying to run is simply:
mount -o ro /dev/sda1 /mnt/root

What is odd is that I can manually type this and get it to mount /dev/sda1 to /mnt/root without issue. So why is my initramfs failing? :\

[ykram]

Solved

In case anybody else runs into this, basically I modified the 'init' script used by initrd to attempt uuidlabel_root and then sleep 5 seconds if the return code from mount is not 0 and to repeat that 5 times.