Slow iSCSI discovery on boot halting the boot process.

[Andrea Brancatelli]

On 2021-04-30 11:12, Arrigo Marchiori via freebsd-stable wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 10:29:33AM +0200, Andrea Brancatelli via freebsd-stable wrote:
> 
>> Hello,  
>> 
>> I'm having an annoying problem with FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE-p6, iscsid,
>> geom multiparty, a Dell MD3200i and fstab. 
>> 
>> Long story short, iSCSI login/connection/whatever is slower than the
>> boot process and the machine always get stuck with "cannot find
>> /san_storage (/dev/multipath/...) please enter /bin/sh location"
> 
> Did you try putting in /boot/loader.conf:
> kern.cam.boot_delay=10000
> 
> It should wait for 10 seconds before attempting to mount the root
> partition.

OK, I've put it in /boot/loader.conf, let's see if it helps. 

Unfortunately it's a production machine so I cannot reboot it now to try
it. 

Thanks for the suggestion.