On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 1:48 AM, Chris Cappuccio <ch...@nmedia.net> wrote: > > Sometime before 5.8 release, a 4 second pause was removed from the shutdown > path. This must have been giving your USB disk time to finish before the > reset. >
Interesting, was that in the rc scripts or the kernel? > Have you tried stuff like sync;sync;reboot or sync;sync;sleep 2;reboot ? > For a sample size of 1 trial each, neither helps. Also, shouldn't the last-mounted location have been updated to "/" when the root filesystem got remounted read-write? -- Darren Tucker (dtucker at zip.com.au) GPG key 8FF4FA69 / D9A3 86E9 7EEE AF4B B2D4 37C9 C982 80C7 8FF4 FA69 Good judgement comes with experience. Unfortunately, the experience usually comes from bad judgement.