On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Jeppe Øland <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
There's a big difference between not caring and not being able to fix something - that was the latter, not the former. Though I didn't see the patch linked there, will see if that's reasonable to apply. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
