Philippe Meunier wrote:
> - is the panic intended (well, known to the developers and considered
> normal; I hesitate to call it a feature) or is it an oversight?

no, nothing bioctl does should kill init like that.

> - I would have thought that, once the softraid volume has been created, its
> metadata wouldn't need to change (unless the passphrase is changed, or the
> volume is roaming, as seen above). Any idea why part of it gets trashed?

that's true, but maybe a stray write killed it?

> - is there a way to get the computer to boot again, short of wiping the
> disk with dd and starting from scratch again?

you can run installboot. use the softraid disk name.

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