Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 15:09:35 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB disks attach after rootfs prompt Message-ID: <1998.1458400175@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <1458397972.68920.69.camel@freebsd.org> References: <1346.1458392679@critter.freebsd.dk> <1458397972.68920.69.camel@freebsd.org>
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-------- In message <1458397972.68920.69.camel@freebsd.org>, Ian Lepore writes: >On Sat, 2016-03-19 at 13:04 +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> Running: >> >> FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #32 r296137: Sat Feb 27 11:34:01 UTC 2016 >> >> I tried "boot -a" and found that USB disks only attach *after* you >> enter some root filesystem. >> >> That's not terribly useful. > >iirc, interrupts are disabled while you're at the mountroot prompt, >which freezes usb enumeration. I am somewhat certain that this used to work... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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