Re: NetBSD 9_RC1 not booting from disklabel partition on RAIDframe on GPT

[Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost>]

I haven't done raidframe installations for a long time, but followed
your sequence using two days old amd64-current -9.99.19- and it failed
the same way for me. It was under VirtualBox, though.

Chavdar


On Fri, 6 Dec 2019 at 01:39, Matthias Petermann <mp%petermann-it.de@localhost> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> there seems to be a deviation of the boot behavior in NetBSD 9_RC1
> compared to NetBSD 8.1 under the following circumstances:
>
> 1) system has 2 disks (wd0, wd1)
> 2) disks are GPT-partitioned
> 3) GPT contains one GPT-partition (RAIDframe component) each
> 4) RAIDframe raid0 contains a NetBSD disklabel
>
> After installing NetBSD 9_RC1 it will not boot, instead the primary
> bootstrap is telling me:
>
>         Unexpected raidframe label version
>         NAME=sys0 not found
>
> The closest I could find is this commit:
>
> https://www.mail-archive.com/source-changes-d%netbsd.org@localhost/msg21099.html
>
> where GPT and RAIDframe support for the boot loaders was enhanced (which
> is really good!).
>
> Here is where I set up the system:
>
> * Boot from USB installation media
> * Select keyboard type
> * Utility Menu - Run /bin/sh
>
>      # ksh
>
>      # gpt create wd0
>      # gpt create wd1
>
>      # gpt add -l sys0 -a 2m -s 96G -t raid wd0
>      # gpt add -l sys1 -a 2m -s 96G -t raid wd1
>
>      # gpt show -l wd0
>      # gpt show -l wd1
>
>      # dkctl wd0 listwedges
>      # dkctl wd1 listwedges
>
>      # gpt biosboot -A -i 1 wd0
>      # gpt biosboot -A -i 1 wd1
>
>      # vi /tmp/raid0.conf
>
>          START array
>          1 2 0
>
>          START disks
>          /dev/dk0
>          absent
>
>          START layout
>          128 1 1 1
>
>          START queue
>          fifo 100
>
>      # raidctl -C /tmp/raid0.conf raid0
>      # raidctl -I 201912500 raid0
>      # raidctl -i raid0
>      # raidctl -A softroot raid0
>
> * Exit shell and continue with installer
>
>         * Install NetBSD to hard disk
>         * Select raid0
>         * Select disklabel as partitioning scheme for raid0
>         * Set sizes of NetBSD Partitions
>          -> Change input units (MB)
>                 * root 16384
>                 * swap 16384
>                 * usr 32768+
>                 * var 8192
>         * Bootblock: BIOS console
>         * Installation w/out X11
>
> * Utility Menu - Run /bin/sh
>
>      # installboot -o timeout=30 -v -t raid /dev/rdk0 /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv2
>
> * Reboot
>
>
> Kind regards
> Matthias



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