Re: re-transmission: Re: Prepping to install

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

On 06/16/15 02:17, Martin Husemann wrote:
> See also:
>
> http://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=44774
>
> (and some discussions around that topic on tech-install IIRC). We should
> realy have a multi-level boot override/priority selection.


This sounds a lot like my problem ....


> However, I think ramdisk based install kernels like
>
> http://nyftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/201506160230Z/amd64/binary/kernel/netbsd-INSTALL.gz

What is in here ? I downloaded it, am I supposed to integrate it into my 
install USB key ? If so, how ? Just checking.

> should work: just exit the installer and manually use raidctl to unconfigure
> the auto-root property.


My problem is I can't get to the installer, either directly or w/ boot 
-a, the boot process heads for the now-hosed RAID1 root disk no matter 
what .... I think I will need to zap the 1st few MB of those 2 drives w/ 
'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/raid0 count=10' & start over. That isn't as bad 
as it sounds, & will be the third try :-/, but if it works, I am off to 
the races ....


> Haven't tried it, but maybe worth to test...
>
> Martin

Thanks for the info.

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