Booting from USB-stick == boot -a ?

Christer Solskogen christer.solskogen at gmail.com
Tue Sep 13 13:15:04 UTC 2011


On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
>
> I'm booting 8-stable from a USB stick, and I invariably end up in
> the "askroot" prompt.
>
> It looks like the CAM subsystem doesn't participate in the
> root-mount-interlock scheme ?
>
> I would have expected that to be fixed ages ago, am I missing
> something here ?
>

The pr is still open, I think.
A workaround is to put the following in /boot/loader.conf:
kern.cam.boot_delay=10000

(I only found usb/145184, but I think there are more of them
describing the same problem)

-- 
chs,


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