Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:26:20 -0500 From: Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> To: Adam McDougall <mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu> Cc: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Booting from usb hard disk Message-ID: <1237829180.1771.11.camel@balrog.2hip.net> In-Reply-To: <49C79F06.4080908@egr.msu.edu> References: <1237804575.1771.7.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <49C79F06.4080908@egr.msu.edu>
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--=-1bDlXm/kMJ3ANZNoYXK5 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 10:39 -0400, Adam McDougall wrote: > Robert Noland wrote: > > So I have my i386 install on a usb hard disk, which I can only boot on > > one machine now. The one machine that I can make work has a bios optio= n > > that reads "BIOS ehci handoff". This used to work with the old usb > > stack. The machines that it doesn't work on, boot the kernel, but fail > > to mount root, giving me the forbidding mountroot> prompt, which is > > immediately followed by the message saying that da0 is attached. da0 i= s > > however not listed in the available boot devices list. I tried playing > > around with the timeout in vfs_mount.c, but that didn't seem to have an= y > > impact. It has been suggested that this may be a "geom" timeout, but I > > don't know anything about the boot system really. > > > > robert. > > > > =20 > Is this a recent build of -current from the last few weeks? I seem to=20 > recall some fixes went in to delay the root mount to address this issue. Yes, this is HEAD from last night. It does suggest that it is waiting for ushub4, (that is the code from vfs_mount.c), this appears to be another issue, possibly with geom identification. robert. --=20 Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> FreeBSD --=-1bDlXm/kMJ3ANZNoYXK5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAknHxjwACgkQM4TrQ4qfRONFEACfaWEDZ1cMCJteN91FTgqcLRLi 7RYAn0fTve75HDVSdXert75RXT3BSr2f =dc+T -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-1bDlXm/kMJ3ANZNoYXK5--
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