Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 07:38:53 -0500 From: Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: USB disk boot issues Message-ID: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B65FA89@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com>
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We clone systems from specially prepared USB flash sticks and this all work= s well, except that occasionally the flash stick fails to boot. It fails at= the "mount root" step, saying that it cannot mount the specified root part= ition. We use a labeled partition on the disk to make it device independent= , so we have something like /dev/label/usbroot / ufs rw 1 1 in our fstab. When it fails it doesn't recognize this device, and even ? do= esn't list it as one of the available devices. If we reboot, it's likely th= e problem won't occur again. It seems to be some kind of timing issue. Is t= his a known problem?
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