On 07/13/15 20:46, Robert Elz wrote:
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 00:43:57 +0000 (UTC)
From: chris...@astron.com (Christos Zoulas)
Message-ID: <mo1m0c$64o$1...@ger.gmane.org>
| Yes, this is required for booting from raid.
It is required to make the root on raid work automatically, not for
booting.
| I am wondering why the keyboard is not functional for you.
I suspect (well, really, I'm sure) that's an entirely unrelated problem,
one which has been reported several times before - there must be something
about some systems that NetBSD's initial keyboard access stuff (before
wekbd gets a chance to get involved) isn't doing properly. If he can get
booting working properly, it shouldn't matter normally.
| Try raidctl -A softroot <device>
I'd suggest not. It won't make the boot work - cannot possibly help with
that, and will only make it difficult to recover (again - though now it has
been done once, at least a working method is known), whereas now it is easy
to simply start again.
As I said a week or two ago - you need to get to the state where the kernel
boots, autoconfigures devices, and then fails to find the root filesystem
(booting from the wd discs, not the USB plugin) - when you have that much
working, then is the time to reboot from the USB, and do that raidctl to
allow the root raid to appear.
kre
Hmmmmm .... I *think* that's where I am now, from earlier today & a few
days ago (from boot attempt from disks, *not* USB):
boot device: wd0
root on wd0a dumps on wd0b
vfs_mountroot: can't open root device
cannot mount root, error = 16
root device (default wd0a):
dump device (default wd0b):
& right above that, several lines apiece for each RAID device, listed
components, sizes (all OK), etc., a couple of extra lines for raid2
(/home, larger FS, gpt slice), but all apparently recognized OK, if
that's what those lines mean .... Am I looking for the word
'autoconfigure' explicitly ? If so, I'll reboot & watch for it ....
Thanks for everything so far & TIA for anything new.
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