On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Tim Nelson <[email protected]> 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 parameters and within 1 second, messages appear the > drive was deteced (da0). > Entering this (the original boot parameters) at the prompt allows the board > to boot: > > ufs:/dev/da0s1a > > Is there a way to force the kernel to wait for a period of time after > initializing before attempting to > mount the rootfs? This would allow the devices time to fully init and > 'settle' prior to the kernel attempting > a mount and failing.
Yes ... it's a problem that the developers don't seem to care too much about :( http://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/495 Did you try it with the latest beta ... with some luck it was fixed upstream. Regards, -Jeppe --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
