usb/145184: GENERIC can't mount root from USB on Asus EEE

[Paul B Mahol]

On 3/30/10, Andrew Thompson <thompsa at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 30 March 2010 23:11, Arseny Nasokin <eirnym at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 30 Mar 2010, at 08:00, Andrew Thompson <thompsa at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>
>>> The following reply was made to PR usb/145184; it has been noted by
>>> GNATS.
>>>
>>> From: Andrew Thompson <thompsa at FreeBSD.org>
>>> To: Gnats <bug-followup at FreeBSD.org>
>>> Cc: Eir Nym <eirnym at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: Re: usb/145184: GENERIC can't mount root from USB on Asus EEE
>>> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:54:10 +1300
>>>
>>>>> Kernel doesn't see any USB disks (HDD and flash) on boot. After
>>>>> reinsert
>>>>> flash disk, kernel see device, but can't mount root from it (doesn't
>>>>> list
>>>>> it as possible boot GEOM). This problem is only on my EEE. desktop
>>>>> computer bootup well.
>>>
>>> You can set kern.cam.boot_delay=4 in /boot/loader.conf in order to boot.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I've tried up set this value up to 10-15. This is not work. I also tryed
>> put
>> this option in defaults/loader.conf to test
>
> It may be in milliseconds, try 4000.

10000 in my case works.