Problem: Raid mounting root as read-only, and not from the partition desired...

I must have missed a step, or misconfigured something somewhere. I think I'm right at the tail end of a long process of setting up raid mirror in openbsd 4.0. I used the directions from eclectica here: http://www.eclectica.ca/howto/openbsd-software-raid-howto.php After following everything with

Re: Problem: Raid mounting root as read-only, and not from the partition desired...

On 4/7/07, Merp.com Volunteer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used the directions from eclectica here: http://www.eclectica.ca/howto/openbsd-software-raid-howto.php To be blunt: you are using old (3.7) instructions that are not from the OpenBSD project, that involve compiling your own kernel (see

Re: Problem: Raid mounting root as read-only, and not from the partition desired...

On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 02:41:50AM -0700, Merp.com Volunteer wrote: I'm trying to have it setup as: /raid0a = /boot /raid0d = / /raid0e = /usr Instead it's coming up as: /raid0a = / /raid0e = /usr first, caveat that i've never

Re: Problem: Raid mounting root as read-only, and not from the partition desired...

On Saturday 07 April 2007 04:30:09 am you wrote: On 4/7/07, Merp.com Volunteer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used the directions from eclectica here: http://www.eclectica.ca/howto/openbsd-software-raid-howto.php To be blunt: you are using old (3.7) instructions that are not from the OpenBSD

Re: Problem: Raid mounting root as read-only, and not from the partition desired...

Thanks for the much more productive and helpful response. ;-) Responses below... On Saturday 07 April 2007 12:01:20 pm jared r r spiegel wrote On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 02:41:50AM -0700, Merp.com Volunteer wrote: I'm trying to have it setup as: /raid0a = /boot /raid0d = /

Re: Problem: Raid mounting root as read-only, and not from the partition desired...

On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 12:11:23PM -0700, Merp.com Volunteer wrote: Considering all the workarounds to even just getting python/zope/plone to install, let alone the list of other bugs/issues related to that config on openbsd (that hasn't been an issue on other bsd and nix setups for us), as

Re: Problem: Raid mounting root as read-only, and not from the partition desired...

On Saturday 07 April 2007 12:32:36 pm Will Maier wrote: On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 12:11:23PM -0700, Merp.com Volunteer wrote: Considering all the workarounds to even just getting python/zope/plone to install, let alone the list of other bugs/issues related to that config on openbsd (that

Re: Problem: Raid mounting root as read-only, and not from the partition desired...

One thing you may want to consider - booting off /dev/sd0a, and mounting the rest as raid, and mirroring /dev/sd0a to /dev/sd1a so that you can swap a cable and be on the alternate /dev/sd0a. This should not be a big deal, since the root partition should not change that much, and a nightly rsync