Re: USB disk boot issues

2010-04-14 Thread TJ Varghese
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Boris Samorodov b...@ipt.ru wrote: On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 07:38:53 -0500 Peter Steele wrote: We clone systems from specially prepared USB flash sticks and this all works well, except that occasionally the flash stick fails to boot. It fails at the mount root

Re: USB disk boot issues

2010-04-05 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 07:38:53 -0500 Peter Steele wrote: We clone systems from specially prepared USB flash sticks and this all works well, except that occasionally the flash stick fails to boot. It fails at the mount root step, saying that it cannot mount the specified root partition. We use

RE: USB disk boot issues

2010-04-05 Thread Peter Steele
You can try to solve the problem by: - # echo kern.cam.boot_delay=1 /boot/loader.conf - We've put a pretty sizeable delay already directly in the kernel. There is now a noticeable pause before the mount root step is about to be performed. We don't see the problem often now, but

Re: USB disk boot issues

2010-04-03 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 4/1/10, Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com wrote: We clone systems from specially prepared USB flash sticks and this all works well, except that occasionally the flash stick fails to boot. It fails at the mount root step, saying that it cannot mount the specified root partition. We use a

USB disk boot issues

2010-04-01 Thread Peter Steele
We clone systems from specially prepared USB flash sticks and this all works well, except that occasionally the flash stick fails to boot. It fails at the mount root step, saying that it cannot mount the specified root partition. We use a labeled partition on the disk to make it device