how can I make freebsd wait for usb to become active? Or delay mountroot?

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Tue Feb 14 15:00:47 UTC 2017


On 13/02/2017 19:10, Paul Mather wrote:
> 
> This topic cropped up on the freebsd-arm mailing list very recently.
> One solution is to add this to /boot/loader.conf:
> 
> kern.cam.boot_delay="10000"
> 
> That instructs the system to wait 10 seconds (10000 milliseconds)
> during boot to give time for the CAM subsystem probes to complete.
> (USB storage devices use the CAM subsystem.)

>> vfs.root_mount_always_wait=1 loader tunable.  The knob should be
>> merged to 11 in two weeks.

I'll try that second suggestion as I'm already past r313350

thanks for the advice

-- 
J.


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