Slow iSCSI discovery on boot halting the boot process.

[Arrigo Marchiori]

Hello,

On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 10:29:33AM +0200, Andrea Brancatelli via freebsd-stable wrote:

> Hello,  
> 
> I'm having an annoying problem with FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE-p6, iscsid,
> geom multiparty, a Dell MD3200i and fstab. 
> 
> Long story short, iSCSI login/connection/whatever is slower than the
> boot process and the machine always get stuck with "cannot find
> /san_storage (/dev/multipath/...) please enter /bin/sh location"  

Did you try putting in /boot/loader.conf:
kern.cam.boot_delay=10000

It should wait for 10 seconds before attempting to mount the root
partition.

This solves the issue for me on certain embedded systems, and when
trying to boot from cheap USB pen drives.

I hope this helps.

Best regards,
-- 
Arrigo