Nanobsd on alix wont boot if usb flash drive attached at boot

xbipin

i have a kingston 8GB USB flash drive, i created one partition and formatted with "newfs -U /dev/da0s1". now when i reboot the box, it always gets stuck on external config loader for ever and doesnt go ahead until the drive is removed

this was discussed here
https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/2838

i get this when i run the first command

[2.1-BETA1][root@firewall.xbipin]/root(8): dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=1M cou
nt=1
dd: /dev/da0: Operation not supported

xbipin

i deleted all volumes and partitions from the disk and then ran the below commands and for some reason all worked but as soon as i reboot, still stuck on loading external config, is there any way to simply make it skip checking on the usb drive for a config and move on

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=1M count=1
gpart create -s mbr da0
gpart add -t freebsd da0
newfs -U /dev/da0s1
mount /dev/da0s1 /mnt

xbipin

after this i edited the /etc/ecl.php file and under the get_disks function, made it ignore storing to array if the disk was reported as da0 so basically the config file isn't checked there at all and then rebooted and it worked just fine and then using shellcmd package made it mount as /var/squid and everything worked

main problem i see is running the below command which causes everything to freeze coz when i do the same once its booted and then insert the disk, the console just freezes, is it something to do with the filesystem being ufs and it trying to mount as msdosfs when checking for valid config file?

/sbin/mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /tmp/mnt/cf

xbipin

further analysis

once alix is booted, i insert usb disk and mount with below command it freezes

/sbin/mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /tmp/mnt/cf

once alix is booted, i insert usb disk and mount with below command it all works

/sbin/mount -t ufs /dev/da0s1 /tmp/mnt/cf

i checked the php file and it seems there is code to mount with msdosfs first and then with ufs but it seems it gets stuck on msdosfs and never goes ahead because it doesnt get any reply or there is no failure message or result thats y everything freezes at that point. mayb swapping to first mount with ufs and then with msdosfs would bring some good results

xbipin

i swapped the lines and it boots fine but i get a warning


Creating symlinks......done.
External config loader 1.0 is now starting... da0s1WARNING: /tmp/mnt/cf was not
properly dismounted
 ad0s3

xbipin

i was searching the web and freebsd forums related to this and it seems to be a specific issue related to kingston datatraveler USB flash disks. probably some1 having same can try it out to prove its a bug.

i was never a fan of kingston crap anyways, lexar the best till date for me :)