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On 05.01.2014 04:37, kpneal@pobox.com wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 06:10:54PM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
>> On 04.01.2014 14:11, Thomas Mueller wrote:
>>> How do I make boot wait a few seconds more if it can't mount the root device immediately?
>>
>> Just add to your /boot/loader.conf:
>>
>> kern.cam.boot_delay="10000"
>>
>> The value counts miliseconds.
> 
> In my case I tried this and it didn't do what I needed. I'm pretty sure I
> remember that it delayed some of the scanning.

Then this is a regression.

> What I needed was to delay
> the mounting of root until all devices have been attached. That's different.

That's exactly what this setting is supposed to do and it does for me
in 8.4 and 9.2.