On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 07:13:23AM +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > On Wednesday 13 June 2012 23:35:17 Mel Flynn wrote: > > On 13-6-2012 23:16, claudiu vasadi wrote: > > > If you simplky do "sysctl -d hw.usb.no_boot_wait" you will see the > > > explanation ;) > > > > Probably why Eitan asked as that description: > > a) means nothing to people unfamiliar with device enumerations > > b) does not point to a manual page that explains how USB does device > > enumerations and why it would account for a significant chunk of the > > boot process. > > It's not dangerous. It only means that you can't boot off a USB disk for > example, because the USB stack will then not wait for the BOOT device at > mount-root time, if you set this options.
Can we disable that by default and add a boot menu entry like "Boot from USB Disk" to enable it?
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