I just starting using PirateBox to create a small sharing spot for this little corner of my neighborhood. I got it going on an AR150 and it works great...but only when I use an 8GB USB drive. I bought a PNY 64GB stick and I can't get it to work. It successfully mounts (as sda, after editing etc/ext.config) and there is an fstab entry:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usb auto umask=0,utf8=1,noatime,rw 0 0
but it looks like it comes up really late, very long after loop is loaded (like 40 seconds later).
[ 48.940000] sda: sda1
Is there a way I can insert a pause in the boot sequence after the disk is attached and before the loop module is loaded, like by adding a delay to one of the boot scripts? I'll try to do something like this, but if anyone has encountered this kind of problem I'd appreciate hearing about robust solutions. Thanks!
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Here's dmesg excerpt from the *non-working* setup:
[ 10.060000] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[ 10.350000] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-platform
[ 10.500000] scsi0 : usb-storage 1-1:1.0
[ 11.500000] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access Specific STORAGE DEVICE 0009 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
[ 11.510000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 120922112 512-byte logical blocks: (61.9 GB/57.6 GiB)
[ 11.520000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 31.060000] Loading modules backported from Linux version master-2014-05-22-0-gf2032ea
###skipping stuff
[ 33.160000] loop: module loaded
###skipping stuff
[ 45.540000] device wlan0 entered promiscuous mode
[ 45.550000] br-lan: port 2(wlan0) entered forwarding state
[ 45.550000] br-lan: port 2(wlan0) entered forwarding state
[ 45.560000] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
[ 47.550000] br-lan: port 2(wlan0) entered forwarding state
[ 48.940000] sda: sda1
It looks like it waited for 20 seconds and then moved on, loading loop before sda was mounted at 48.94 seconds at the very end of the log. mount seems to confirm this:
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
/dev/root on /rom type squashfs (ro,relatime)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noatime)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noatime)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,size=30836k)
tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,noatime,size=512k,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noatime,mode=600)
/dev/mtdblock4 on /overlay type jffs2 (rw,noatime)
overlayfs:/overlay on / type overlayfs (rw,relatime,lowerdir=/,upperdir=/overlay)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,relatime)
none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,relatime)
/dev/sda1 on /mnt/usb type vfat (rw,noatime,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,allow_utime=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro)
sda1 is mounted as the very last thing. In contrast, my *working* 2GB system mounts sda almost immediately
[ 10.060000] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[ 10.360000] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-platform
[ 10.510000] scsi0 : usb-storage 1-1:1.0
[ 11.940000] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access PNY USB 2.0 FD 1100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
[ 11.950000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 15950592 512-byte logical blocks: (8.16 GB/7.60 GiB)
[ 11.950000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 11.960000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
[ 11.960000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] No Caching mode page present
[ 11.970000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 11.980000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] No Caching mode page present
[ 11.980000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 11.990000] sda: sda1
and mount returns
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
/dev/root on /rom type squashfs (ro,relatime)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noatime)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noatime)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,size=30836k)
tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,noatime,size=512k,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noatime,mode=600)
/dev/mtdblock4 on /overlay type jffs2 (rw,noatime)
overlayfs:/overlay on / type overlayfs (rw,relatime,lowerdir=/,upperdir=/overlay)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,relatime)
/dev/sda1 on /mnt/usb type vfat (rw,noatime,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,allow_utime=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/loop0 on /mnt/ext type ext4 (rw,sync,relatime,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered)
/dev/loop1 on /opt/piratebox type ext4 (rw,relatime,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered)
none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,relatime)
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usb auto umask=0,utf8=1,noatime,rw 0 0
but it looks like it comes up really late, very long after loop is loaded (like 40 seconds later).
[ 48.940000] sda: sda1
Is there a way I can insert a pause in the boot sequence after the disk is attached and before the loop module is loaded, like by adding a delay to one of the boot scripts? I'll try to do something like this, but if anyone has encountered this kind of problem I'd appreciate hearing about robust solutions. Thanks!
--------------details:
Here's dmesg excerpt from the *non-working* setup:
[ 10.060000] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[ 10.350000] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-platform
[ 10.500000] scsi0 : usb-storage 1-1:1.0
[ 11.500000] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access Specific STORAGE DEVICE 0009 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
[ 11.510000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 120922112 512-byte logical blocks: (61.9 GB/57.6 GiB)
[ 11.520000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 31.060000] Loading modules backported from Linux version master-2014-05-22-0-gf2032ea
###skipping stuff
[ 33.160000] loop: module loaded
###skipping stuff
[ 45.540000] device wlan0 entered promiscuous mode
[ 45.550000] br-lan: port 2(wlan0) entered forwarding state
[ 45.550000] br-lan: port 2(wlan0) entered forwarding state
[ 45.560000] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
[ 47.550000] br-lan: port 2(wlan0) entered forwarding state
[ 48.940000] sda: sda1
It looks like it waited for 20 seconds and then moved on, loading loop before sda was mounted at 48.94 seconds at the very end of the log. mount seems to confirm this:
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
/dev/root on /rom type squashfs (ro,relatime)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noatime)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noatime)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,size=30836k)
tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,noatime,size=512k,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noatime,mode=600)
/dev/mtdblock4 on /overlay type jffs2 (rw,noatime)
overlayfs:/overlay on / type overlayfs (rw,relatime,lowerdir=/,upperdir=/overlay)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,relatime)
none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,relatime)
/dev/sda1 on /mnt/usb type vfat (rw,noatime,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,allow_utime=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro)
sda1 is mounted as the very last thing. In contrast, my *working* 2GB system mounts sda almost immediately
[ 10.060000] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[ 10.360000] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-platform
[ 10.510000] scsi0 : usb-storage 1-1:1.0
[ 11.940000] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access PNY USB 2.0 FD 1100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
[ 11.950000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 15950592 512-byte logical blocks: (8.16 GB/7.60 GiB)
[ 11.950000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 11.960000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
[ 11.960000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] No Caching mode page present
[ 11.970000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 11.980000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] No Caching mode page present
[ 11.980000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 11.990000] sda: sda1
and mount returns
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
/dev/root on /rom type squashfs (ro,relatime)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noatime)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noatime)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,size=30836k)
tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,noatime,size=512k,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noatime,mode=600)
/dev/mtdblock4 on /overlay type jffs2 (rw,noatime)
overlayfs:/overlay on / type overlayfs (rw,relatime,lowerdir=/,upperdir=/overlay)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,relatime)
/dev/sda1 on /mnt/usb type vfat (rw,noatime,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,allow_utime=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/loop0 on /mnt/ext type ext4 (rw,sync,relatime,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered)
/dev/loop1 on /opt/piratebox type ext4 (rw,relatime,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered)
none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,relatime)