Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:16:27 -0300 (BRT) From: "Nenhum_de_Nos" <matheus@eternamente.info> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting from usb hard disk Message-ID: <cabe81a43e40108d799a3e6572de72df.squirrel@10.1.1.10> In-Reply-To: <1237884572.1771.28.camel@balrog.2hip.net> References: <1237804575.1771.7.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <fd2392216bb33e5b66f8fe79459e45e2.squirrel@cygnus.homeunix.com> <1237884572.1771.28.camel@balrog.2hip.net>
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On Tue, March 24, 2009 05:49, Robert Noland wrote: > On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 19:40 -0300, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote: >> On Mon, March 23, 2009 07:36, 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. >> >> I had problem a while ago with via mini itx hardware, that was quite >> close. If I try boot from usb (installed in usb hdd), I get to the point >> of loader not finding my disk. >> >> I then used a small flash disk attached to the ata (44 pin ide) channel >> and formatted /boot in there. this way I get to the point of mount root >> you said, and da0 not being alive soon enough to mount root. list disks >> also couldn't find da0 though. >> >> I tried current from that time, and no good. >> >> if this is solved, I'll be happy to try whatever patch to current. (as >> long as I can install it from another box/or its ata channel, as it >> can't >> boot vanilla 7.1R) > > So, my solution was to set kern.cam.scsi_delay=10000 > in /boot/loader.conf with this set, it doesn't even detects the usb disk, just the controller :( thanks, matheus > You can hit 6 from the boot menu and set it manually the first time. > > robert. > >> matheus >> > > -- > Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> > FreeBSD > -- We will call you cygnus, The God of balance you shall be
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