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Re: Prepping to install: a digression



On 07/13/15 20:46, Robert Elz wrote:
     Date:        Tue, 14 Jul 2015 00:43:57 +0000 (UTC)
     From:        christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
     Message-ID:  <mo1m0c$64o$1%ger.gmane.org@localhost>

   | Yes, this is required for booting from raid.

It is required to make the root on raid work automatically, not for
booting.

   | I am wondering why the keyboard is not functional for you.

I suspect (well, really, I'm sure) that's an entirely unrelated problem,
one which has been reported several times before - there must be something
about some systems that NetBSD's initial keyboard access stuff (before
wekbd gets a chance to get involved) isn't doing properly.   If he can get
booting working properly, it shouldn't matter normally.

   | Try raidctl -A softroot <device>

I'd suggest not.   It won't make the boot work - cannot possibly help with
that, and will only make it difficult to recover (again - though now it has
been done once, at least a working method is known), whereas now it is easy
to simply start again.

As I said a week or two ago - you need to get to the state where the kernel
boots, autoconfigures devices, and then fails to find the root filesystem
(booting from the wd discs, not the USB plugin) - when you have that much
working, then is the time to reboot from the USB, and do that raidctl to
allow the root raid to appear.

kre


Hmmmmm .... I *think* that's where I am now, from earlier today & a few days ago (from boot attempt from disks, *not* USB):


boot device: wd0
root on wd0a dumps on wd0b
vfs_mountroot: can't open root device
cannot mount root, error = 16
root device (default wd0a):
dump device (default wd0b):


& right above that, several lines apiece for each RAID device, listed components, sizes (all OK), etc., a couple of extra lines for raid2 (/home, larger FS, gpt slice), but all apparently recognized OK, if that's what those lines mean .... Am I looking for the word 'autoconfigure' explicitly ? If so, I'll reboot & watch for it .... Thanks for everything so far & TIA for anything new.


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