Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:22:34 +1200 From: James Butler <sweetnavelorange@gmail.com> To: Randi Harper <randi@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD CURRENT Mailing List <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> Subject: Re: Fwd: Can't boot 8.0-BETA4 from USB stick Message-ID: <f0dd9eb90909101522l2e56f8dardae165976d6c00c0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <e277d6c80909101505t1932472bo22d41ded69c58dd8@mail.gmail.com> References: <f0dd9eb90909080402m27558850g6aaa2a5e4c477758@mail.gmail.com> <200909091631.01446.hselasky@c2i.net> <f0dd9eb90909092137o25d00f3l8bfba581a9d1aab8@mail.gmail.com> <200909100911.10237.hselasky@c2i.net> <f0dd9eb90909101448r5ad0c375r47cc253038aaa5f9@mail.gmail.com> <e277d6c80909101505t1932472bo22d41ded69c58dd8@mail.gmail.com>
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2009/9/11 Randi Harper <randi@freebsd.org>: > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 2:48 PM, James Butler <sweetnavelorange@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> 2009/9/10 Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net>: >> > On Thursday 10 September 2009 06:37:13 James Butler wrote: >> >> Is there anything else worth trying? >> > >> > Another brand of memory sticks? >> >> I have only the three different brands that I tried (Toshiba and two >> different no-names). Is there really nothing like an adjustable delay >> at boot? Perhaps it's time to spend NZD$30 on a CF card and IDE >> adapter, but that will be of limited use for troubleshooting or >> installation. >> >> -James >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > I've been asking around about an option to delay before mounting root as > well. I don't know of anything off the top of my head, but it sounds to me > like a bug (or at least a reasonable feature request). Send a PR? I probably will now, I just wanted to exhaust the existing options. It seems to me that a "wait for the configured root device to appear" timeout could be arbitrarily long (eg. 10+ secs) by default without adversely affecting the normal use case, but I don't claim to know how the boot process works. > Have you only tried this on the one computer? It seems suspicious that all > the cards are having this problem when I've only heard of two cases of USB > flash-slowness causing problems so far. I'm curious to see if you have the > same problem using that flash disk with a different computer. I think I used the same drive to test-install 8.0-BETA1 on my old Thinkpad X31, which seemed to work OK. This Asus motherboard is a but useless in other ways; still, 7.2 runs fine. -James
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