One of the big problems with RAIDFrame support absence in GENERIC is that
it's also lacking in RAMDISK and RAMDISK_CD. This prevents RAIDFrame
users from doing binary updates off boot media.
This can be fixed with a few tweaks in src/distrib/i386/:
First, create a bsd.rd within cdrom39.fs (note, NOT cd39.iso!) with
RAIDFrame support:
Because src/distrib/i386/ramdisk_cd/Makefile simply includes
${.CURDIR}/../common/Makefile.inc, appends "list.local" with a couple
hundred extra-Kb or utilities, sets the floppy imagage to 2.8mb size, then
declares $RAMDISK. (Which is a *very* ambiguous name, mind you, a better
name would be something like $KERNERLCONF, etc.), one can simply adjust
RAMDISK= to point to a src/sys/arch/i386/conf/$foo kernel conf file which
will get automatically build on 'make release' in src/etc/ as 'bsd.rd'.
Simply copy src/sys/arch/i386/conf/RAMDISK_CD to conf/RAMDISK_CD+RAIDFrame
append the following:
pseudo-device raid 4 # RAIDframe disk driver
options RAID_AUTOCONFIG
Then set the following in distrib/i386/ramdisk_cd/Makefile:
RAMDISK=RAMDISK_CD+RAIDFrame
Next, make another kernel package available to the install script
(GENERIC+RAIDFrame) as an option. Follow the same instructions for
RAMDISK_CD for GENERIC.
Add the following to src/etc/etc.i386/Makefile.inc:
bsd.mp+raidframe:
cd ${.CURDIR}/../sys/arch/i386/conf && config GENERIC.MP+RAIDFRAME
cd ${.CURDIR}/../sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP+RAIDFRAME && \
${MAKE} clean && ${MAKE} depend && exec ${MAKE}
Then add the following to src/distrib/notes/m4.common:
define({:-OpenBSDbsdmp+raidframe-:},
{:- bsd.mp+raidframe A stock GENERIC.MP MACHINE kernel, with support
for multiprocessor machines, which can be used
instead of the GENERIC kernel after the
install.
Also features CMU RAIDFrame support for
upgrading exisint RAIDFrames.-:})dnl dnl
Then clean out your obj and src and rebuild. Your $RELEASDIR/cdrom39.fs
(2.88mb Floppy image for use with mkisofs(1)) will contain a gzip(1)'d
bsd.rd with RAIDFrame support).
Run mkisofs(8) on your $DESTIDR with cdrom39.fs as your '-B'. You may now
safely burn a CD-R for binary upgrades of existing RAIDFrame enabled
OpenBSD systems, or use your .ISO with your DRAC card via remote media.
l8*
-lava (Brian A. Seklecki - Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
http://www.spiritual-machines.org/
"...from back in the heady days when "helpdesk" meant nothing, "diskquota"
meant everything, and lives could be bought and sold for a couple of pages
of laser printout - and frequently were."
