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To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
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Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 21:29:20 +0100
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Subject: Re: About removable disks, mountroot and sw-raid 
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In message <20040114.131523.03269738.imp@bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes:
>In message: <27183.1074107137@critter.freebsd.dk>
>            "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
>: In message <20040114105700.H73725@carver.gumbysoft.com>, Doug White writes:
>: 
>: >It would be nice to make the wait tunable since most conditions won't
>: >require it and there's no sense in delaying everyone's boot for a few
>: >bizarre disk setups.
>: 
>: You boot would not be delayed in the normal case.  The delays only apply
>: to how long time we want for an expected disk to show up.
>
>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.

That's how it works today and how it should still work IMO.

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