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.