Oliver Fromme wrote: > Of course, a better way to solve the problem would be to > find out _why_ it is hanging in the first place. :-) > The first step would be to enter the kernel debugger and > take a stack trace, in order to find out where it is stuck. > > It might be a good idea to take this issue to the freebsd- > usb mailing list.
Actually, it resolved to be a very large timeout, on the order of 5 minutes per step, before something gives up and the boot process continues. > > I tried using loader hint hint.usb.2.disabled="1" but it doesn't work. > > Unfortunately, hints cannot be used to disable devices in > general (which would be a desirable feature). That only > works for legacy devices (i.e. ISA) and some others. I'd argue that this is actually a bad thing - I'm sure there are situations where it would be useful to disable (almost) arbitrary nodes in the device tree, even down to specific pci busses.
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