Re: Prepping to install: a digression

["William A. Mahaffey III" <wam%hiwaay.net@localhost>]

On 07/13/15 11:12, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <55A3D796.60808%hiwaay.net@localhost>,
> William A. Mahaffey III <wam%hiwaay.net@localhost> wrote:
>
> [stuff deleted]
>
> > Anything on this, anyone ? I am (re-)reading the online raidctl &
> > installboot man pages, but I am out of ideas for now .... Any more info
> > needed, please ask, & *any* help appreciated, I am stuck :-( ....
> Did the raid autoconfigure at this point? If it did, then you could boot -a
> and enter raid0a for the root device. Then you can try to to make raid
> autoconfigure root... What does raidctl -s raid0 say?
>
> christos


Thanks for the reply. I tried the 'boot -a'. It got down to the following:

boot device: wd0
root device (default wd0a):

When I tried to type in 'raid0a', it added 'pckbport_start: command 
error' & hung.

i.e. it now says:

boot device: wd0
root device (default wd0a): pckbport_start: command error

with the cursor right below that line & not responding.

The RAID devices all autoconfigured OK, AFAICT, all 3 were mentioned, 
showed the component partitions, had the right sizes, etc. i.e. it 
looked AOK to me. The lines from the RAID device recognition were right 
before the above 'boot device' line. I then powered off, put the install 
USB stick in & powered up. I bumped over into the shell & executed 
'raidctl -s raid0 > LIST.raid0.new.txt', which I attach. If you need 
*anything* else, please don't hesitate. Thanks again & TIA for any new 
clues.

P.S. As mentioned elsewhere, I have had trouble w/ raidctl -A root 
before, so I haven't gone there yet. Is that actually required for boot 
from root on RAID (man pages seem ambiguous on that point) ?




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Components:
           /dev/wd0a: optimal
           /dev/wd1a: optimal
No spares.
Component label for /dev/wd0a:
   Row: 0, Column: 0, Num Rows: 1, Num Columns: 2
   Version: 2, Serial Number: 10, Mod Counter: 85
   Clean: No, Status: 0
   sectPerSU: 32, SUsPerPU: 1, SUsPerRU: 1
   Queue size: 100, blocksize: 512, numBlocks: 33554368
   RAID Level: 1
   Autoconfig: Yes
   Root partition: No
   Last configured as: raid0
Component label for /dev/wd1a:
   Row: 0, Column: 1, Num Rows: 1, Num Columns: 2
   Version: 2, Serial Number: 10, Mod Counter: 85
   Clean: No, Status: 0
   sectPerSU: 32, SUsPerPU: 1, SUsPerRU: 1
   Queue size: 100, blocksize: 512, numBlocks: 33554368
   RAID Level: 1
   Autoconfig: Yes
   Root partition: No
   Last configured as: raid0
Parity status: clean
Reconstruction is 100% complete.
Parity Re-write is 100% complete.
Copyback is 100% complete.