root mount from usb-connected hard drive fails after upgrade to FreeBSD 8.2-stable

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

On Sat, 05 Nov 2011 18:01:10 +0100
Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky at c2i.net> wrote:

> On Saturday 05 November 2011 16:51:46 Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> > Then I upgraded FreeBSD on that partition to 8.2-stable, and now the
> > machine won't mount root from that device at all. I had to load the old
> > kernel and boot from that. Here is usbconfig output for the usb docking
> > station:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Did you try to press "." during the mount root prompt?

Yes, I tried that - it didn't help.
(Has anyone actually got this particular hint to work? Or is it just "myth"?)

> There has been a couple of threads where you can set:
> 
> kern.cam.boot_delay=1000
> 
> http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=39047.0

Of course! (smacks forehead)
Adding
kern.cam.boot_delay=10000
to /boot/loader.conf fixed the issue.
Thanks!
-- 
Torfinn