USB disks attach after rootfs prompt

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <1458397972.68920.69.camel at freebsd.org>, Ian Lepore writes:
>On Sat, 2016-03-19 at 13:04 +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> Running:
>> 
>> 	FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #32 r296137: Sat Feb 27 11:34:01 UTC 2016
>> 
>> I tried "boot -a" and found that USB disks only attach *after* you
>> enter some root filesystem.
>> 
>> That's not terribly useful.
>
>iirc, interrupts are disabled while you're at the mountroot prompt,
>which freezes usb enumeration.

I am somewhat certain that this used to work...


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