Re: Booting from usb hard disk

On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 03:54:35PM -0300, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote:
> On Mon, March 30, 2009 03:10, Andrew Thompson wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 03:49:32AM -0500, Robert Noland wrote:
> >> On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 19:40 -0300, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote:
> >> > I had problem a while ago with via mini itx hardware, that was quite
> close. If I try boot from usb (installed in usb hdd), I get to the
> >> point
> >> > of loader not finding my disk.
> >> >
> >> > I then used a small flash disk attached to the ata (44 pin ide)
> >> channel
> >> > and formatted /boot in there. this way I get to the point of mount
> >> root
> >> > you said, and da0 not being alive soon enough to mount root. list
> >> disks
> >> > also couldn't find da0 though.
> >> >
> >> > I tried current from that time, and no good.
> >> >
> >> > if this is solved, I'll be happy to try whatever patch to current.
> (as
> >> > long as I can install it from another box/or its ata channel, as it
> >> can't
> >> > boot vanilla 7.1R)
> >> So, my solution was to set kern.cam.scsi_delay=10000
> >> in /boot/loader.conf
> >
> > The following patch should work. It creates interleaving root hold
> tokens from the CAM probe to disk_create and geom providor tasting. I
> had to add a malloc type flag as sleeping isnt allowed at the point I
> added the token alloc in CAM.
> >
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~thompsa/root_wait.diff
> >
> > It needs review by the various geom/cam ppls.
> >
> >
> > Andrew
> 
> phoenix# patch < ../root_wait.diff
> Hmm...  Looks like a unified diff to me...
> The text leading up to this was:
> --------------------------
> |Index: kern/vfs_mount.c
> |=================================================================== |---
> kern/vfs_mount.c	(revision 190540)
> |+++ kern/vfs_mount.c	(working copy)
> --------------------------
> Patching file kern/vfs_mount.c using Plan A...
> Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected!  Assume -R? [y]

The patch was committed and by applying it again you have reverted it.
Just use the current sources without the patch.

Andrew