On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 06:31:25PM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote: > On Sun, 11 May 2014, Michael L. Hitch wrote: > > >On Sun, 11 May 2014, Paul Goyette wrote: > > > >>I might be able to get a serial console set-up, but it will > >>likely take some time, as I have never used serial console with > >>netbsd. (I would estimate that it would take me at least until > >>next weekend, maybe even longer...) > >> > >>If there are any other suggestions, I'd love to hear them. > > > > My guess is that since you have the RAID partition on wd0e, the > >root device configuration is trying to use the 'e' partition on > >the raid0 device. > > > > I think I've almost always used the 'a' partition for a bootable > >raid and can't remember any configuration where the bootable raid > >wasn't on the 'a' partition. > > Yeah, that seems to be the problem. But it wasn't a problem until > just a few weeks ago (April 2nd). The raid device has its own > partition table, independant of the partition table on the component > drives, so there really isn't any good reason (IMHO) to assume any > correspondence between them. > > And FWIW, this configuration has been working for at least a couple > of years. I even wrote up a How-To page [1] for the wiki to > describe the set-up. My analysis is that rf_netbsdkintf.c:1.306-8 introduced a call to findroot() (via cpu_rootconf() changed later to cpu_bootconf()), which sets booted_partition to e because it matched wd0e and wd1e to the physical boot device. But when booted_device is later changed to raid0, booted_partition is not touched. I am not 100% clear about what changed there, but in a way the old behaviour was wrong, too: it doesn't seem like a good idea to change booted_device without resetting booted_partition to a proper value. Now, what should rf_buildroothack do? Set it to 'a' unconditionnally? Maybe set it to whichever partition is at the beginning of the device? -- Quentin Garnier - cube%cubidou.net@localhost "See the look on my face from staying too long in one place [...] every time the morning breaks I know I'm closer to falling" KT Tunstall, Saving My Face, Drastic Fantastic, 2007.
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