On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 11:41 -0400, Douglas Berry wrote: > On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 05:36:15 CDT, Robert Noland wrote: > > So I have my i386 install on a usb hard disk, which I can only boot > > on one machine now. The one machine that I can make work has a bios > > option that reads "BIOS ehci handoff". This used to work with the > > old usb stack. The machines that it doesn't work on, boot the > > kernel, but fail to mount root, giving me the forbidding mountroot> > > prompt, which is immediately followed by the message saying that da0 > > is attached. da0 is however not listed in the available boot > > devices list. I tried playing around with the timeout in > > vfs_mount.c, but that didn't seem to have any impact. It has been > > suggested that this may be a "geom" timeout, but I don't know > > anything about the boot system really. > > I have been using tunefs(8) labeled partitions on my usb hard disk > under CURRENT. I changed the fstab entries to match the labels > (eg. assume mylabel is myroot, /dev/da0s1a becomes /dev/ufs/myroot) > It works well on most systems. On some systems, I see the symptom > you show, but I am saved by the labels showing up just after the > mountroot prompt. I am then able to type > > ufs:/dev/ufs/myroot > > and resume the boot. Maybe this helps you? Well, I haven't tried labeling the partitions, but ufs:/dev/da0s1a doesn't work from the rootmount> prompt. Even after da0 shows up. robert. > > cheers, > doug > -- Robert Noland <rnoland_at_FreeBSD.org> FreeBSD
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