From owner-freebsd-usb@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 15 14:17:35 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4A601065673 for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:17:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamescarmstrong@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gy0-f182.google.com (mail-gy0-f182.google.com [209.85.160.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5657D8FC15 for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:17:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyd8 with SMTP id 8so760962gyd.13 for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2010 07:17:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:date:message-id :subject:from:to:content-type; bh=wJDCCsaP8ZeOTdUaFXbUjLo5NHx9TrqEJi7hIK3vT9I=; b=tiqfGgbB3k2pd3Ji8dCijc9nv37Y0wvx4bW1Kr1hI1HLfQWH2+He7UJUmZooLWQT0z pn7aKQ+H3Xcn1RukOPC3HatjB5cFDv92c0Z1I18SfpagmLPhSQxRR3wRzMxB8PU0YzFz mH6Cfbp35QJ8D8IfPKV6V2Ri3AG2krtnQr9sQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=FgGeGhusrWZrHuM8DmwDIakwCLqS7awKaqSmDoGE7BGR0vWXFYVtar9oFBwPEdeX19 HMQEgnn2zgyqfVjQqrB/6KaaH6E9ueTLGLP2LL1pNjKwVaNockeRHls56WPt4s/XsO9x h/TRNva/o628Bdz5aqUcnyFp3vZTMRsASdZAk= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.137.18 with SMTP id k18mr11002142ybd.54.1279201777354; Thu, 15 Jul 2010 06:49:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.157.9 with HTTP; Thu, 15 Jul 2010 06:49:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 06:49:37 -0700 Message-ID: From: James Armstrong To: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Unable to boot off USB Drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD support for USB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:17:35 -0000 We're trying to boot a machine off a USB drive, and it looks like we're getting a race condition. After going through post, we get the message "FAILED TO MOUNT ROOT" and we enter the mountroot command screen, but amidst that screen, we also get the post message identifying the disk, with the notation that it has a 40.00000MB transfer speed. At the mountroot prompt, entering "ufs:/dev/da0s1a" properly boots. It looks to me like the system is trying to mount root before the USB drivers finish identifying all the devices, including the disk from which we are booting. Have any of you seen this? Any suggestions on how we can correct this? (As an interim, we're going to move the boot to a SATA drive, but we want to use all the SATA ports for other purposes, so this means we're sacrificing a SATA device.) James Armstrong