>> The old SCSI layer probed things sequentially, so you would finish probing
>> everything, no matter how long it took, before any booting took place.
>
>Right. Maybe the install kernel should stick to sequential probing?
>I don't particularly like 'time dependent' probing with the variety of
>hardware that is out there.
All CAM device instances 'exist' before the boot up is allowed to progress.
If you attempt to open the device while it is initializing, you will block
in open until the initialization is complete, but the open will eventually
succeed (assuming we were successful in our attempts to initialize the device).
The same probing mechanism (parallel probing) is used to find our root
device, and I have not heard of an instance where that has failed. I would
not expect sysintall to see the world any differently than the mount root
code.
Perhaps there is another bug in the ahb driver...
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Justin
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