usb/145184: GENERIC can't mount root from USB on Asus EEE

[Arseny Nasokin]

On 31 Mar 2010, at 00:51, Paul B Mahol <onemda at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 3/30/10, Andrew Thompson <thompsa at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On 30 March 2010 23:11, Arseny Nasokin <eirnym at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 30 Mar 2010, at 08:00, Andrew Thompson <thompsa at FreeBSD.org>  
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The following reply was made to PR usb/145184; it has been noted by
>>>> GNATS.
>>>>
>>>> From: Andrew Thompson <thompsa at FreeBSD.org>
>>>> To: Gnats <bug-followup at FreeBSD.org>
>>>> Cc: Eir Nym <eirnym at gmail.com>
>>>> Subject: Re: usb/145184: GENERIC can't mount root from USB on  
>>>> Asus EEE
>>>> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:54:10 +1300
>>>>
>>>>>> Kernel doesn't see any USB disks (HDD and flash) on boot. After
>>>>>> reinsert
>>>>>> flash disk, kernel see device, but can't mount root from it  
>>>>>> (doesn't
>>>>>> list
>>>>>> it as possible boot GEOM). This problem is only on my EEE.  
>>>>>> desktop
>>>>>> computer bootup well.
>>>>
>>>> You can set kern.cam.boot_delay=4 in /boot/loader.conf in order  
>>>> to boot.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> I've tried up set this value up to 10-15. This is not work. I also  
>>> tryed
>>> put
>>> this option in defaults/loader.conf to test
>>
>> It may be in milliseconds, try 4000.
>
> 10000 in my case works.
Wow! It woks! Thanks for this workaround!