2009/9/11 Randi Harper <randi_at_freebsd.org>: > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 2:48 PM, James Butler <sweetnavelorange_at_gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> 2009/9/10 Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky_at_c2i.net>: >> > On Thursday 10 September 2009 06:37:13 James Butler wrote: >> >> Is there anything else worth trying? >> > >> > Another brand of memory sticks? >> >> I have only the three different brands that I tried (Toshiba and two >> different no-names). Is there really nothing like an adjustable delay >> at boot? Perhaps it's time to spend NZD$30 on a CF card and IDE >> adapter, but that will be of limited use for troubleshooting or >> installation. >> >> -James >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" > > I've been asking around about an option to delay before mounting root as > well. I don't know of anything off the top of my head, but it sounds to me > like a bug (or at least a reasonable feature request). Send a PR? I probably will now, I just wanted to exhaust the existing options. It seems to me that a "wait for the configured root device to appear" timeout could be arbitrarily long (eg. 10+ secs) by default without adversely affecting the normal use case, but I don't claim to know how the boot process works. > Have you only tried this on the one computer? It seems suspicious that all > the cards are having this problem when I've only heard of two cases of USB > flash-slowness causing problems so far. I'm curious to see if you have the > same problem using that flash disk with a different computer. I think I used the same drive to test-install 8.0-BETA1 on my old Thinkpad X31, which seemed to work OK. This Asus motherboard is a but useless in other ways; still, 7.2 runs fine. -JamesReceived on Thu Sep 10 2009 - 20:22:36 UTC
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