On 12/19/16 13:01, Todd Carpenter wrote: > Hi All, > > I recently installed 6.0 and was struggling to get my softraid0 stripe to > build properly and or boot. I went over section 14 carefully and did some > research. The part that I found was missing was the creation of a 100 meg > partition on the A slice and how to successfully create a bootable raid > stripe.
no, that's not needed. > (I'm sure there is something somewhere that I missed, but I thought > it would be awesome to include step #2 and #3 in the raid setup) > > Target > https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#softraid > Source > http;//undeadly,org/cgi?action=article&sid=2011xxxxxxx [url mangled] that's a 2011 article, which predates bootable softraid. > #1 - is kind of a question really. My issue was it took me several times > to get my raid "perfect" during the process every failed attempt would > result in portions of the raid remaining intact. IE fdisk would see RAID > partitions that were not wiped or bioctl would think parts of the stripe > were degraded etc.. ultimately my solution was to zero fill all of the > disks and start fresh.. Is this the best way? or was there something simple > I missed? yeah, I found it very good to zero the first one or ten MB of any part of the disk where a softraid partition could have been BEFORE creating the array. > #2 - update FAQ with the additional step to included the creation of the A > slice as a boot device. ...[misleading info removed]... no, not needed (unless someone broke something since I last looked) > #3 - add the bootdevice creation steps to prepare the above boot slice and again. no. so. What you propose is wrong, but you found it helped you...so sounds like there's a problem with your process. What did you do, what did you expect to happen, what did you see happen? Nick.
