a bit late, but fwiw -
I have 7.5 on an optiplex 990 on SSD, no issues. Not quite a 980, but I
honestly doubt that this matters given my experience on these boxes. (I also
have 7.5 on a 960, and have had it on a 955 and 945. There’s nothing special
about the Dells that I have and booting
On 2024-04-25, Chris Petrik wrote:
> Remember softraid isn't the same as hw raid and I will always chose hw over
> soft this includes zfs.
There are advantages and disadvantages for both. e.g. a software
setup with multiple disk controllers can, if there's support for data
error detection[1],
> Hello,
>
> Remember softraid isn't the same as hw raid and I will always chose hw over
> soft this includes zfs.
>
> Chris
I am sorry, but what relevance does your personal preferences have
to anything regarding this issue?
FWIW, I have seen more than one example of some really crappy
Hello,
Remember softraid isn't the same as hw raid and I will always chose hw over
soft this includes zfs.
Chris
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On 4/25/24 3:14 PM, Martin wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 09:12:47AM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> >
>
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 09:12:47AM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote:
>
> > I checked, the softraid manual page already has an example installboot
> > invocation in EXAMPLES, which should be clear enough.
>
>
> Regardless, I've tweaked the wording a bit. Hopefully more clear now.
Indeed :) Thank
On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 09:12:47AM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> I checked, the softraid manual page already has an example installboot
> invocation in EXAMPLES, which should be clear enough.
Regardless, I've tweaked the wording a bit. Hopefully more clear now.
On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 03:27:29AM +, Martin wrote:
> I eventually found out what was going on.
>
> The FreeBSD boot problem was not related at all.
>
> Long story short and for future reference, installboot needs
> to be run on the softraid volume, NOT on the physical disk. And this
> has
I eventually found out what was going on.
The FreeBSD boot problem was not related at all.
Long story short and for future reference, installboot needs
to be run on the softraid volume, NOT on the physical disk. And this
has to be repeated after a softraid volume rebuild in order for the new
> That seems... unusual. Do you have an (old) IDE compatibility option turned
> on in
> the BIOS? I would have expected it to attach via AHCI:
> sd0 at scsibus1 targ 2 lun 0:
On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 08:26:40PM -0500, Brian Conway wrote:
> > wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0:
>
> That seems... unusual. Do you have an (old) IDE compatibility option turned
> on in the BIOS? I would have expected it to attach via AHCI:
>
> sd0 at scsibus1 targ 2 lun 0:
>
On 2024-04-24, Brian Conway wrote:
>> wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0:
>
> That seems... unusual. Do you have an (old) IDE compatibility option turned
> on in the BIOS? I would have expected it to attach via AHCI:
Optiplex 980 is from ~2010, similar age to the HP N54L microserver etc.
Disks
> RAID replicates the data in the RAIDed area, yes?
>
> Do you have some reason to believe that the boot information (MBR, etc) is
> _inside_ the RAID area, because I do not believe that. Really feels like
> installboot needs to be run on this drive to, uh, install the proper boot
> info.
>
>
> wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0:
That seems... unusual. Do you have an (old) IDE compatibility option turned on
in the BIOS? I would have expected it to attach via AHCI:
sd0 at scsibus1 targ 2 lun 0: naa.5002538e304456ac
Brian Conway
RAID replicates the data in the RAIDed area, yes?
Do you have some reason to believe that the boot information (MBR, etc) is
_inside_ the RAID area, because I do not believe that. Really feels like
installboot needs to be run on this drive to, uh, install the proper boot
info.
Philip Guenther
> FWIW, my current desktop which is a Dell OptiPlex 745 is booting off an SSD.
>
> joji@surya$ dmesg | grep -iE "optiplex|Samsung"
> bios0: Dell Inc. OptiPlex 745
> wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0:
>
>
> joji@surya$ uname -a
> OpenBSD surya 7.5 GENERIC.MP#82 amd64
>
> Don't know if your
On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 09:08:26PM +, Martin wrote:
> Turns out this machine, for some reason, simply cannot boot of SSDs with
> neither OpenBSD or FreeBSD on the box. Only spinning drives work.
>
> It's an old Dell Inc. OptiPlex 980.
>
> I suspect there is some issue with the BIOS of the
Turns out this machine, for some reason, simply cannot boot of SSDs with
neither OpenBSD or FreeBSD on the box. Only spinning drives work.
It's an old Dell Inc. OptiPlex 980.
I suspect there is some issue with the BIOS of the machine and the BSD
bootloaders as Linux with GRUB works on SSDs.
Also, if I boot from a USB stick, with only the new SSD attached, the softraid
is registered as degraded (as the other old disk is missing), so it has been
populated, and the partition is also marked with an asterisk for boot, but I
still cannot boot from that drive.
> I suspect this error comes from your BIOS/UEFI rather than the OpenBSD
> boot loader. Did you check how boot drives are configured in firmware?
I already tested that by moving the new disk to another box and boot it from
that, unfortunately I get the same error.
On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 12:51:41AM +, i...@protonmail.com wrote:
> I have a softraid mirror setup with two old spinning disks. I have detached
> one of the disks from the mirror and attached a new SSD. I then wanted to
> rebuild the mirror, using one old spinning drive and the new SSD, and
I have a softraid mirror setup with two old spinning disks. I have detached one
of the disks from the mirror and attached a new SSD. I then wanted to rebuild
the mirror, using one old spinning drive and the new SSD, and then afterwards,
remove the old spinning drive and replace with yet another
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