USB key can't mount /root during boot (was: Re: installing FreeBSD in VMWare-player)

[Matthias Apitz]

Maybe it is better to ask such question in freebsd-usb ...

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From: Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:31:13 +0200
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: installing FreeBSD in VMWare-player

El día Friday, August 27, 2010 a las 12:06:09PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió:

>  On 27/08/2010 10:24 ??.??., Matthias Apitz wrote:
> >
> > Is it possible that the data gets corrupt on an USB key after some time?
> > I'm wondering why the system even is intact to be booted from...
> >
> > Will prepare the key again or just fill in the dumps I have...
> >
> > 	matthias

I prepared another USB key which boots fine in my laptop, boots fine in
the other laptop native (i.e. without VM-player); but in the
VM-player and in an older laptop of my wife it can't mount the root file
system on boot; it says:

...
umass0: SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x000
Root mount waiting for; usbus1
aumass0:1:0:-1 Attached to scbus1
uhub_explore:592: illegal enable change, port 1
da0at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: <Intenso Premium 0.00> Remobeable Direct Access SCSI-2 device
da0: 40.000MB/s travsfer
da0: 7701MB (... byte per sector info)
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a

Manual root file system specification...

when I specify manually the root as 'ufs:/dev/da0s1a' the same message
comes again;

looks like some timing problem, or? this is with 8-CURRENT based on CVS
of March 2009.

Any hints?

	matthias

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