Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 14:25:21 +0000 From: Paul B Mahol <onemda@gmail.com> To: Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: USB disk boot issues Message-ID: <g2m3a142e751004030725w218652b0m6b2b550e88c49f2e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B65FA89@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> References: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B65FA89@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com>
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On 4/1/10, Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com> wrote: > We clone systems from specially prepared USB flash sticks and this all works > well, except that occasionally the flash stick fails to boot. It fails at > the "mount root" step, saying that it cannot mount the specified root > partition. We use a labeled partition on the disk to make it device > independent, so we have something like > > /dev/label/usbroot / ufs rw 1 1 > > in our fstab. When it fails it doesn't recognize this device, and even ? > doesn't list it as one of the available devices. If we reboot, it's likely > the problem won't occur again. It seems to be some kind of timing issue. Is > this a known problem? Yes, it is.
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