On 12/07/17 21:30, Mike Scott wrote:
> On 12/07/17 14:21, Mike Scott wrote:
>> I'm having problems getting freebsd to run off an external hard drive
>> instead of the pi's SD card..
> ...
>> The system starts to boot, but the loader gives expected messages
>> about umass0 followed by da0, then stops with
>>
>> "mounting from /dev/da0p2 failed with error 19"
>>
>> (device does not support operation??) and waits for a manual entry of
>> the root device.
> ...
>
>
> OK, I'll answer my own query. I finally hit on the right set of
> buzz-words for the search engine, and found the answer at
> https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/30254/
>
>
> The usb disk is slow enough to need extra boot delay before / is
> mounted. So I've put into loader.conf
> kern.cam.boot_delay="10000"
>
> and all is well.
>
> (Footnote: the loader.conf files /must/ be root-owned, or they are
> silently ignored during boot. Took ages to find that somehow loader.conf
> was owned by my non-root persona. Wierd. But all's well now.)
>
>
>
WEIRD.



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