port-hpcmips/41164: CF card does not attach until very late, resulting in no root device

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>Number:         41164
>Category:       port-hpcmips
>Synopsis:       CF card does not attach until very late, resulting in no root 
>device
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    port-hpcmips-maintainer
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Apr 07 11:50:00 +0000 2009
>Originator:     Ed
>Release:        NetBSD/hpcmips 5.0RC3
>Organization:
None
>Environment:
NEC MobilePro 750C
>Description:
In NetBSD/hpcmips 5.0RC3 using a CF card for boot and root, the CF card does 
not attach until very late in the boot process. This can be detected using the 
install kernel with RAMdisk; the CF card does not attach until sysinst has 
started. Installation progresses fine, but attempting to boot the installed 
GENERIC kernel will fail upon trying to mount the root device since it does not 
exist, leaving you with an unknown boot device and choices of "ddb halt reboot" 
for the root.
>How-To-Repeat:
Check description
>Fix:
Not known