Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 07:31:31 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: About removable disks, mountroot and sw-raid Message-ID: <35613.1074148291@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Jan 2004 21:43:32 PST." <200401142143.32886.wes@softweyr.com>
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In message <200401142143.32886.wes@softweyr.com>, Wes Peters writes: >> What are there plans to allow disks to arrive after we give up? >> Obviously if we give up, we'll be at the root> prompt, but if a disk >> is a little late, it would be nice to be able to say 'da0s1a' and have >> it find this device, rather than hard wiring the available devices at >> the time that the first root> prompt is given. > >Or better yet, have it recognize that the new disk that just magically >appeared is a candidate for disk boot and booting from it when it >attaches. No, once we hit the prompt we stay there. If people want a longer timeout than default, they set the tunable. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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