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Date:      Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:16:48 +0800
From:      TJ Varghese <tj@tjvarghese.com>
To:        Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru>
Cc:        Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: USB disk boot issues
Message-ID:  <p2hc7f2adc21004142116jde248a2anb063fb758214785@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <84707499@bb.ipt.ru>
References:  <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B65FA89@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> <84707499@bb.ipt.ru>

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On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru> wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 07:38:53 -0500 Peter Steele wrote:
>
>> We clone systems from specially prepared USB flash sticks and this all w=
orks 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 p=
artition. We use a labeled partition on the disk to make it device independ=
ent, so we have something like
>
>> /dev/label/usbroot =C2=A0/ =C2=A0 =C2=A0ufs =C2=A0 =C2=A0rw =C2=A0 =C2=
=A0 1 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A01
>
>> in our fstab. When it fails it doesn't recognize this device, and even ?=
 doesn't list it as one of the available devices. If we reboot, it's likely=
 the problem won't occur again. It seems to be some kind of timing issue. I=
s this a known problem?
>
> You can try to solve the problem by:
> -----
> # echo "kern.cam.boot_delay=3D10000" >> /boot/loader.conf
> -----

above did not work for me, however this did:

kern.cam.scsi_delay=3D10000



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