2009/9/11 Randi Harper <randi_at_freebsd.org>: > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 3:22 PM, James Butler <sweetnavelorange_at_gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> 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. >> >> -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" > > To avoid adversely affecting the normal use case, a tunable could specify > the option of having the mount wait until the device appears, or possibly > for how long to delay the mount. This really isn't my area of expertise, > though, so take what I say with a grain of salt. > > Not sure if you've seen these, but this is a problem other people are > reporting as well: > > Relevant but not enlightening: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-May/007457.html > Slightly more helpful: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-August/010562.html > > Not all that relevant, but interesting anyways: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-July/009912.html > Ha - I didn't find anything when I searched the lists, must've been what my wife calls a "boy look". FYI: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=138798 Thanks, -JamesReceived on Mon Sep 14 2009 - 01:32:12 UTC
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