Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 03:49:32 -0500 From: Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> To: Nenhum_de_Nos <matheus@eternamente.info> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting from usb hard disk Message-ID: <1237884572.1771.28.camel@balrog.2hip.net> In-Reply-To: <fd2392216bb33e5b66f8fe79459e45e2.squirrel@cygnus.homeunix.com> References: <1237804575.1771.7.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <fd2392216bb33e5b66f8fe79459e45e2.squirrel@cygnus.homeunix.com>
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--=-ufgED6cs1kXmznRR0gSS Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 19:40 -0300, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote: > On Mon, March 23, 2009 07:36, 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. >=20 > I had problem a while ago with via mini itx hardware, that was quite > close. If I try boot from usb (installed in usb hdd), I get to the point > of loader not finding my disk. >=20 > I then used a small flash disk attached to the ata (44 pin ide) channel > and formatted /boot in there. this way I get to the point of mount root > you said, and da0 not being alive soon enough to mount root. list disks > also couldn't find da0 though. >=20 > I tried current from that time, and no good. >=20 > if this is solved, I'll be happy to try whatever patch to current. (as > long as I can install it from another box/or its ata channel, as it can't > boot vanilla 7.1R) So, my solution was to set kern.cam.scsi_delay=3D10000 in /boot/loader.conf You can hit 6 from the boot menu and set it manually the first time. robert. > matheus >=20 --=20 Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> FreeBSD --=-ufgED6cs1kXmznRR0gSS 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) iEYEABECAAYFAknInpwACgkQM4TrQ4qfROML/ACcC2d45/zP1GSjJwSta3y0HuwV WrsAn18y4ApeNv5S/KZeyDw6s9yRKMWX =k5Ex -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-ufgED6cs1kXmznRR0gSS--
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