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Old 13th May 2008
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Originally Posted by robbak View Post
Another possibility is that the machine has scsi disks, and the addition of a usb device bumps the /dev/dan nodes along one. I cannot see that happening, though - if a system prioritized usb disks above scsi ones, well......
This happens to me. If I leave a usb pen drive plugged in it then maps to /dev/da0 and then boot stops because it can't find the root drive.

This machine also has one SATA drive and when I had FreeBSD install on that as root I didn't have the problem - as I recall.

It never really bothered me all that much to really look into.
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