Booting FreeBSD 8.0-RC1 from usb stick

[Gavin Atkinson]

On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 14:40 +0200, Marius Nünnerich wrote:
> 2009/9/29 Andrey V. Elsukov <bu7cher at yandex.ru>:
> > Marius Nu"nnerich wrote:
> >>
> >> Explicitly setting the root partition
> >> (vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/da0s1a") in /boot/loader.conf does not
> >> help either: Again, the system knows which partition it should mount
> >> to "/", but it fails to do so. (vfs.root.mountfrom.options=rw was set
> >> too).
> >
> > It's known problem and we are waiting for fix. There is a race between
> > USB and CAM/SCSI subsystems.
> 
> OK, thank you! Is there a PR open for this?

I think your problem is probably usb/138798.

Gavin