Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 11:06:59 -0500 From: Justin Hibbits <chmeeedalf@gmail.com> To: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB disks attach after rootfs prompt Message-ID: <20160319110659.06ca66a1@zhabar.knownspace> In-Reply-To: <1998.1458400175@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <1346.1458392679@critter.freebsd.dk> <1458397972.68920.69.camel@freebsd.org> <1998.1458400175@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Sat, 19 Mar 2016 15:09:35 +0000 "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: > -------- > In message <1458397972.68920.69.camel@freebsd.org>, Ian Lepore writes: > >On Sat, 2016-03-19 at 13:04 +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> Running: > >> > >> FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #32 r296137: Sat Feb 27 11:34:01 UTC > >> 2016 > >> > >> I tried "boot -a" and found that USB disks only attach *after* you > >> enter some root filesystem. > >> > >> That's not terribly useful. > > > >iirc, interrupts are disabled while you're at the mountroot prompt, > >which freezes usb enumeration. > > I am somewhat certain that this used to work... > > Tunable vfs.mountroot.timeout may be what you're looking for. By default it waits for 3 seconds, but for USB it's suggested 10s or more, from what I recall. - Justin
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