On Jan 9, 2008 1:22 AM, William Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear misc -- > > I'm attempting to get a root partition on raid 1 RaidFrame > configuration working with OpenBSD 4.2. I have a Soekris 4801 with a > compact flash card, a USB 2.0 PCI card and 2 identical external usb > hard drives. > > I built a new kernel configured with the pseudo-device raid 4 and > option RAID_AUTOCONFIG. > > I installed OpenBSD on the compact flash, created and initialized > the raid array, set the raid device to autoconfigure and set the root > flag, changed fstab on the raid disks to point root to raid0a instead > of wd0a and rebooted. When the system rebooted wd0a was mounted as > root. > > Attached is dmesg, mount, raid0.conf, disklables. raidctl -sv output. > > If someone can point me in the direction of what to look at or give > me any ideas of what could be going wrong. >
When you build your new kernel you also need to change config(8) to "set root on raid0". fstab isn't read until *after* the root is mounted, remember; how is it going to know to read from raid0a:/etc/fstab if the file to tell it that is raid0a:/etc/fstab? -Nick
