Unable to boot from umass(4) since 8.1

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On Saturday 04 September 2010 19:53:46 Clarence Chu wrote:
> Dear Sirs:
> 
> I was unable to boot from umass(4) devices with the following symtom:
> 1) kernel and all loader.conf modules were loaded
> 2) unable to mount ufs:/dev/da0s3a as root,
> 3) when "ufs:/dev/da0s3a" was supplied to the mount prompt,  mounting
>      continue.
> 
> situation persist on using USB->IDE converter and USB key.
> 
> the umass(4) devices were able to boot using  [67].x but refuse to work
> with the  8.1-STABLE as of today.
> 
> Any suggestions?

You can try setting:

kern.cam.boot_delay

--HPS