From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 10 22:22:36 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D68F21065672 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:22:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sweetnavelorange@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f208.google.com (mail-ew0-f208.google.com [209.85.219.208]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4259E8FC08 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:22:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy4 with SMTP id 4so581513ewy.36 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:22:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=I7YbQZaaf0GY55Adl+57XCK5SA7+VQZSwOk6PWxLU8o=; b=U4L81KXlbAun0zPqUuzmcGRYxdwijPg9EBvwBt8GM1ezivNaqVAfzwz3jsByTcugxH APIQOT8Q/5RcdTs6UlkAdS+ho52j59k/iN/NZTW+DBlPb6WugNaaakoo06KAeGZe4EXa 13/IifVSqs/ttrC0vMzoMx4SrXBYR1E933yl4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=kciWp3Ef/5m0uSaXRNFZ0XRAw1A6D9wroREd13HDLnrxMi27q9SBUE+WXyeh0RV5WA QZJZGkNuLhq/Sk4z29mkxRBaPWNZSncwyRY6KxLGnt/X/V1ZeRXQa/QEsHtB0MKIJpGW koPe506eUuv6Pd47DLo+vzywGE9fB+qds/CPY= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.7.210 with SMTP id 60mr203155wep.126.1252621354998; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:22:34 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <200909091631.01446.hselasky@c2i.net> <200909100911.10237.hselasky@c2i.net> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:22:34 +1200 Message-ID: From: James Butler To: Randi Harper Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: FreeBSD CURRENT Mailing List , Hans Petter Selasky Subject: Re: Fwd: Can't boot 8.0-BETA4 from USB stick X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:22:37 -0000 2009/9/11 Randi Harper : > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 2:48 PM, James Butler > wrote: >> >> 2009/9/10 Hans Petter Selasky : >> > On Thursday 10 September 2009 06:37:13 James Butler wrote: >> >> Is there anything else worth trying? >> > >> > Another brand of memory sticks? >> >> I have only the three different brands that I tried (Toshiba and two >> different no-names). Is there really nothing like an adjustable delay >> at boot? Perhaps it's time to spend NZD$30 on a CF card and IDE >> adapter, but that will be of limited use for troubleshooting or >> installation. >> >> -James >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > I've been asking around about an option to delay before mounting root as > well. I don't know of anything off the top of my head, but it sounds to me > like a bug (or at least a reasonable feature request). Send a PR? I probably will now, I just wanted to exhaust the existing options. It seems to me that a "wait for the configured root device to appear" timeout could be arbitrarily long (eg. 10+ secs) by default without adversely affecting the normal use case, but I don't claim to know how the boot process works. > Have you only tried this on the one computer? It seems suspicious that all > the cards are having this problem when I've only heard of two cases of USB > flash-slowness causing problems so far. I'm curious to see if you have the > same problem using that flash disk with a different computer. I think I used the same drive to test-install 8.0-BETA1 on my old Thinkpad X31, which seemed to work OK. This Asus motherboard is a but useless in other ways; still, 7.2 runs fine. -James