[pfSense Support] USB/SATA HDD - Force Delay?

2010-08-04 Thread Tim Nelson
Greetings fellow pfSense'rs- While booting a system from a USB--SATA attached hard drive, the boot process fails when trying to mount root since the drive has not been fully initialized. The system is placed at a prompt for updating the boot parameters and within 1 second, messages appear the

Re: [pfSense Support] USB/SATA HDD - Force Delay?

2010-08-04 Thread Jeppe Øland
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Tim Nelson tnel...@rockbochs.com wrote: While booting a system from a USB--SATA attached hard drive, the boot process fails when trying to mount root since the drive has not been fully initialized. The system is placed at a prompt for updating the boot

Re: [pfSense Support] USB/SATA HDD - Force Delay?

2010-08-04 Thread Tim Nelson
- Jeppe Øland jol...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Tim Nelson tnel...@rockbochs.com wrote: While booting a system from a USB--SATA attached hard drive, the boot process fails when trying to mount root since the drive has not been fully initialized. The system is

Re: [pfSense Support] USB/SATA HDD - Force Delay?

2010-08-04 Thread Jeppe Øland
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Tim Nelson tnel...@rockbochs.com wrote: Did you try it with the latest beta ... with some luck it was fixed upstream. Yes, I'm testing with the latest 2.0 BETA3. There's a BETA4 as well. Regards, -Jeppe

Re: [pfSense Support] USB/SATA HDD - Force Delay?

2010-08-04 Thread Chris Buechler
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Jeppe Øland jol...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Tim Nelson tnel...@rockbochs.com wrote: While booting a system from a USB--SATA attached hard drive, the boot process fails when trying to mount root since the drive has not been fully

Re: [pfSense Support] USB/SATA HDD - Force Delay?

2010-08-04 Thread Jeppe Øland
Googling found a recent workaround: http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?s=d7af7671c4a56cb50af4c13e2fb7877fp=91961postcount=8 Since few month ago it is possible to workaround the issue on 8-STABLE without patching kernel, just by adding to /boot/loader.conf line: kern.cam.boot_delay=1 It

Re: [pfSense Support] USB/SATA HDD - Force Delay?

2010-08-04 Thread David Burgess
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Tim Nelson tnel...@rockbochs.com wrote: Yes, I'm testing with the latest 2.0 BETA3. The latest is BETA4. db - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands,

Re: [pfSense Support] USB/SATA HDD - Force Delay?

2010-08-04 Thread Tim Nelson
- David Burgess apt@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Tim Nelson tnel...@rockbochs.com wrote: Yes, I'm testing with the latest 2.0 BETA3. The latest is BETA4. Silly typos. Who thought it would be a good idea to put the '3' next to the '4' on the keyboard... :-)

Re: [pfSense Support] USB/SATA HDD - Force Delay?

2010-08-04 Thread Tim Nelson
- Jeppe Øland jol...@gmail.com wrote: Googling found a recent workaround: http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?s=d7af7671c4a56cb50af4c13e2fb7877fp=91961postcount=8 Since few month ago it is possible to workaround the issue on 8-STABLE without patching kernel, just by adding to

Re: [pfSense Support] USB/SATA HDD - Force Delay?

2010-08-04 Thread Tim Nelson
- Tim Nelson tnel...@rockbochs.com wrote: - Jeppe Øland jol...@gmail.com wrote: Googling found a recent workaround: http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?s=d7af7671c4a56cb50af4c13e2fb7877fp=91961postcount=8 Since few month ago it is possible to workaround the issue on

Re: [pfSense Support] USB/SATA HDD - Force Delay?

2010-08-04 Thread Jeppe Øland
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Chris Buechler cbuech...@gmail.com wrote: Yes ... it's a problem that the developers don't seem to care too much about :( http://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/495 There's a big difference between not caring and not being able to fix something - that was the