Subject: Problems booting from RAID1 raidframe on NetBSD/alpha
To: None <port-alpha@netbsd.org>
From: David Brownlee <abs@absd.org>
List: port-alpha
Date: 06/27/2005 13:51:23
I have a Digital Personal WorkStation 433au with a raidframe
root filesystem mirrored between an IDE disk (which SRM
can handle) and a SCSI disk on an atw controller (which it
cannot).
Before making wd0a into a raid component it could boot fine
from it. Now, it loads the first bootstage, then fails out
saying it cannot load '/boot'.
If I netboot the kernel will autoconfigure the root filesystem
and run without problems.
I've run 'installboot -v /dev/rwd0c /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffs'
and even 'installboot -v /dev/rraid0c /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffs'.
# disklabel wd0 | sed '1,/fstype/d'
a: 17916240 0 RAID # (Cyl. 0 - 17774*)
c: 26588016 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 26376)
# disklabel raid0 | sed '1,/fstype/d'
a: 4194304 0 4.2BSD 4096 32768 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 4095)
b: 2097152 4194304 swap # (Cyl. 4096 - 6143)
c: 17916160 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 17496*)
e: 4194304 6291456 4.2BSD 4096 32768 0 # (Cyl. 6144 - 10239)
f: 7430400 10485760 4.2BSD 4096 32768 54688 # (Cyl. 10240 - 17496*)
The only two issues I can see would be:
- raid0a has a 32k/4k blocksize
- raid0a is ffsv2
Can anyone confirm if either of the above would be an issue, or
see what I'm missing?
Thanks
--
David Brownlee -- abs@absd.org