About removable disks, mountroot and sw-raid

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20040114.131523.03269738.imp at bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes:
>In message: <27183.1074107137 at critter.freebsd.dk>
>            "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
>: In message <20040114105700.H73725 at carver.gumbysoft.com>, Doug White writes:
>: 
>: >It would be nice to make the wait tunable since most conditions won't
>: >require it and there's no sense in delaying everyone's boot for a few
>: >bizarre disk setups.
>: 
>: You boot would not be delayed in the normal case.  The delays only apply
>: to how long time we want for an expected disk to show up.
>
>What are there plans to allow disks to arrive after we give up?
>Obviously if we give up, we'll be at the root> prompt, but if a disk
>is a little late, it would be nice to be able to say 'da0s1a' and have
>it find this device, rather than hard wiring the available devices at
>the time that the first root> prompt is given.

That's how it works today and how it should still work IMO.

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