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I could solve the boot problem of the USB key in the older
laptop of my wife by inserting into /boot/loader.conf the line

kern.cam.scsi_delay="10000"

(note: set kern.cam.boot_delay did not help)

	matthias
-- 
Matthias Apitz
«...una sola vez, que es cuanto basta si se trata de verdades definitivas.»
«...only once, which is enough if it has todo with definite truth.»
José Saramago, Historia del Cerca de Lisboa