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Re: Prepping to install: a digression



On 07/13/15 19:50, Christos Zoulas wrote:
In article <55A43D0B.6030208%hiwaay.net@localhost>,
William A. Mahaffey III <wam%hiwaay.net@localhost> wrote:
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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:

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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) ?

Yes, this is required for booting from raid. I am wondering why the
keyboard is not functional for you. Try raidctl -A softroot <device>

christos


*Eeeeeeek*, I am using 6.1.5, no softroot option for raidctl -A, that's apparently only in 7.0-CURRENT, not even seen in 7.0-RC1 ....

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