On Saturday 10 January 2009, Thomas Sparrevohn wrote: > I have a 4GB SDHC card that I have formatted with ufs and installed a > current kernel on - Its connected to a USB reader. Now here is the thing - > I can boot the kernel with USB2 well enough but when it comes to mount root > - it looks like USB2 has not probed and attached the device yet and I get > the "mount root from" prompt - however it does not show the cam devices > > Any advice?
It's being worked on by "Ed Maste <[email protected]>". Temporary patch is available here for kern/vfs_mount.c : --- vfs_mount.c.orig Mon Dec 22 14:43:36 2008 +++ vfs_mount.c Mon Dec 22 15:09:14 2008 @@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ #include <sys/sysent.h> #include <sys/systm.h> #include <sys/vnode.h> +#include <sys/cons.h> #include <vm/uma.h> #include <geom/geom.h> @@ -1606,7 +1607,11 @@ vfs_mountroot(void) { char *cp; - int error, i, asked = 0; + const char *rootdevname_orig; + int error; + unsigned int i; + unsigned char asked = 0; /* set if asked for mount point */ + unsigned char timeout = 16; /* seconds */ root_mount_prepare(); @@ -1624,6 +1629,10 @@ asked = 1; } + /* store a copy of the initial root device name */ + rootdevname_orig = ctrootdevname; + retry: + /* * The root filesystem information is compiled in, and we are * booted with instructions to use it. @@ -1674,12 +1683,27 @@ if (!vfs_mountroot_try(ctrootdevname)) goto mounted; /* - * Everything so far has failed, prompt on the console if we haven't - * already tried that. + * Check if we should try more times. + */ + if (timeout != 0) { + timeout--; + pause("WROOT", hz); + if (cncheckc() == -1) { + /* no key press - try again */ + ctrootdevname = rootdevname_orig; + goto retry; + } + } + + /* + * Everything so far has failed, prompt on the console if we + * haven't already tried that. */ - if (!asked) + if (!asked) { + printf("\n"); if (!vfs_mountroot_ask()) goto mounted; + } panic("Root mount failed, startup aborted."); --HPS _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-usb To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
