mounting USB drive at boot

[Ian Lepore]

On Thu, 2017-02-09 at 14:14 -0500, freebsd-arm at wynn.com wrote:
> Greeting-
> 
> This is probably not ARM specific, but I just brought my original
> BeagleBone up on the freebsd current image from ftp.freebsd.org.
> 
> While I was pleased to discover that USB was working much better than
> it had on 10.x for disk devices (usb flash drive in this case).  I
> was
> disappointed to discover that attempts to mount the drive at boot
> would
> fail with the drive not being present when fsck started.  
> 
> I tried tagging it as a late file system in fstab and of course
> marked
> it as second to  check after /, but no joy.  The message about da0
> being discovered always came after the fsck failed and I was dropped
> to
> single user mode.
> 
> As a work around I set /dev/ufs/bb64 to noauto and I am running fsck
> on
> it and mounting it from rc.local.
> 
> Is there something obvious I have missed that will permit the fsck to
> happen after the usb bus has been probed?
> 
> -Brett
> 
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Set kern.cam.boot_delay="10000" in /boot/loader.conf.  Tune the 10000
as needed, it's delay in milliseconds.

-- Ian