About removable disks, mountroot and sw-raid

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <200401142143.32886.wes at softweyr.com>, Wes Peters writes:

>> 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.

No, once we hit the prompt we stay there.  If people want a longer
timeout than default, they set the tunable.

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