On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 12:56:53PM -0800, Jordan wrote: > The install procedure I followed on the T4 was: > > 1) Boot install kernel and drop to shell and provision RAID partitions on > both disks using the letter “a” via disklabel(8) > > 2) Assemble RAID volume with # bioctl -c 1 -l /dev/sd0a,/dev/sd1a softraid0 > > 3) I zeroed the first 10MB of the RAID volume with # dd if=/dev/urandom > of=/dev/rsd2c bs=1m
Step 3 might get you in trouble. You're writing to the raw disk device so this command might nuke disklabel and/or softraid meta data. > 4) I finished off the install as usual by typing ”install” into command line > and proceeded normally > > 5) I then rebooted and set the boot parameters at the ok prompt as per > boot_sparc(8) > In short, on sparc64, is softraid boot like that of i386/amd64 where > everything including root is stored within the RAID volume, Yes, except as mentioned the RAID fs needs to be on an 'a' partition. > or does sparc64 > require me to have a small partition at the beginning of my physical disks > containing the kernel and ofwboot? No it does not.
