About removable disks, mountroot and sw-raid

[Wes Peters]

On Wednesday 14 January 2004 12:15 pm, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> 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.

Or better yet, have it recognize that the new disk that just magically 
appeared is a candidate for disk boot and booting from it when it 
attaches.

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        Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?

Wes Peters                                               wes at softweyr.com