FreeBSD Boot Times

[Lars Engels]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 07:13:23AM +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 June 2012 23:35:17 Mel Flynn wrote:
> > On 13-6-2012 23:16, claudiu vasadi wrote:
> > > If you simplky do "sysctl -d hw.usb.no_boot_wait" you will see the
> > > explanation ;)
> > 
> > Probably why Eitan asked as that description:
> > a) means nothing to people unfamiliar with device enumerations
> > b) does not point to a manual page that explains how USB does device
> > enumerations and why it would account for a significant chunk of the
> > boot process.
> 
> It's not dangerous. It only means that you can't boot off a USB disk for 
> example, because the USB stack will then not wait for the BOOT device at 
> mount-root time, if you set this options. 

Can we disable that by default and add a boot menu entry like "Boot from USB
Disk" to enable it?
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