Subject: /boot on RAID1: "Can't open /boot"
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Mike Frandsen <michael.frandsen@sri.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 08/24/2007 22:25:19
I've tried to follow the instructions in "Chapter 15. NetBSD RAIDframe"
for booting NetBSD from RAID1.
My configuration is NetBSD 3.1 over 4 250 GB SATA drives configured with:
RAID1 root partition (mirroring across all 4 disks)
RAID5 large partition (spanning all 4 disks)
The error I'm getting when trying to boot the system is:
Boot failed (errno 2): Can't open /boot
I thought the main tricks were:
* make sure there's a partition visible with fdisk and marked active
* make sure / is only RAID1 (since RAID5 not supported for root
filesystem at boot time)
* make sure / starts at the beginning of the RAID partition
* make sure RAID is configured to set "root" and "autoconfig" (-A root)
* run installboot for all bootable disks
* based on the error message, I've double-checked the "/boot" file and
ensured it is the same as in /usr/mdec
I can boot off a CD and mount the RAID partitions so I know RAID is
working and the filesystems are ok.
Is there something I'm missing or anything else I should try? Are there
any peculiarities with RAID1 mirroring across all 4 disks instead of just 2?
Thanks,
Mike