Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:39:02 -0400 From: Adam McDougall <mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu> To: Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Booting from usb hard disk Message-ID: <49C79F06.4080908@egr.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <1237804575.1771.7.camel@balrog.2hip.net> References: <1237804575.1771.7.camel@balrog.2hip.net>
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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 option > 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 is > 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 any > impact. It has been suggested that this may be a "geom" timeout, but I > don't know anything about the boot system really. > > robert. > > Is this a recent build of -current from the last few weeks? I seem to recall some fixes went in to delay the root mount to address this issue.
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