Re: Prepping to install: a digression

2015-07-15 Thread William A. Mahaffey III
On 07/14/15 18:12, Robert Elz wrote: Date:Mon, 13 Jul 2015 21:57:46 -0453 From:"William A. Mahaffey III" Message-ID: <55a47933.1020...@hiwaay.net> | Hm I *think* that's where I am now, from earlier today & a few | days ago (from boot attempt from

Re: Prepping to install: a digression

2015-07-14 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Mon, 13 Jul 2015 21:57:46 -0453 From:"William A. Mahaffey III" Message-ID: <55a47933.1020...@hiwaay.net> | Hm I *think* that's where I am now, from earlier today & a few | days ago (from boot attempt from disks, *not* USB): Sorry, have not been lo

Re: Prepping to install: a digression

2015-07-14 Thread tlaronde
On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 06:39:51PM +, Michael van Elst wrote: > w...@hiwaay.net ("William A. Mahaffey III") writes: > > >Good thought, however it is a PS2 kbd & mouse. Thanks for your reply & > >TIA for any new clues. > > If PS2 hardware is detected (even when not really functional), > it pr

Re: Prepping to install: a digression

2015-07-14 Thread William A. Mahaffey III
On 07/14/15 13:46, Michael van Elst wrote: w...@hiwaay.net ("William A. Mahaffey III") writes: Good thought, however it is a PS2 kbd & mouse. Thanks for your reply & TIA for any new clues. If PS2 hardware is detected (even when not really functional), it prevents an USB keyboard from becoming

Re: Prepping to install: a digression

2015-07-14 Thread Michael van Elst
w...@hiwaay.net ("William A. Mahaffey III") writes: >Good thought, however it is a PS2 kbd & mouse. Thanks for your reply & >TIA for any new clues. If PS2 hardware is detected (even when not really functional), it prevents an USB keyboard from becoming the console keyboard. -- --

Re: Prepping to install: a digression

2015-07-14 Thread William A. Mahaffey III
On 07/14/15 02:45, Michael van Elst wrote: w...@hiwaay.net ("William A. Mahaffey III") writes: P.S. As mentioned elsewhere, I have had trouble w/ raidctl -A root before, so I haven't gone there yet. Is that actually required for boot >from root on RAID (man pages seem ambiguous on that point)

Re: Prepping to install: a digression

2015-07-14 Thread William A. Mahaffey III
On 07/13/15 20:46, Robert Elz wrote: Date:Tue, 14 Jul 2015 00:43:57 + (UTC) From:chris...@astron.com (Christos Zoulas) Message-ID: | Yes, this is required for booting from raid. It is required to make the root on raid work automatically, not for booting.

Re: Prepping to install: a digression

2015-07-14 Thread William A. Mahaffey III
On 07/14/15 02:15, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 12:43:57AM +, Christos Zoulas wrote: In article <55a43d0b.6030...@hiwaay.net>, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: [...] Thanks for the reply. I tried the 'boot -a'. It got down to the following: boot device: wd0 root devi

Re: Prepping to install: a digression

2015-07-14 Thread tlaronde
On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 12:43:57AM +, Christos Zoulas wrote: > In article <55a43d0b.6030...@hiwaay.net>, > William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > >[...] > > > >Thanks for the reply. I tried the 'boot -a'. It got down to the following: > > > >boot device: wd0 > >root device (default wd0a): > > > >Whe

Re: Prepping to install: a digression

2015-07-14 Thread Michael van Elst
w...@hiwaay.net ("William A. Mahaffey III") writes: >P.S. As mentioned elsewhere, I have had trouble w/ raidctl -A root >before, so I haven't gone there yet. Is that actually required for boot >from root on RAID (man pages seem ambiguous on that point) ? Currently it is necessary. The bootload

Re: Prepping to install: a digression

2015-07-13 Thread William A. Mahaffey III
On 07/13/15 20:46, Robert Elz wrote: Date:Tue, 14 Jul 2015 00:43:57 + (UTC) From:chris...@astron.com (Christos Zoulas) Message-ID: | Yes, this is required for booting from raid. It is required to make the root on raid work automatically, not for booting.

Re: Prepping to install: a digression

2015-07-13 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Tue, 14 Jul 2015 00:43:57 + (UTC) From:chris...@astron.com (Christos Zoulas) Message-ID: | 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

Re: Prepping to install: a digression

2015-07-13 Thread William A. Mahaffey III
On 07/13/15 19:50, Christos Zoulas wrote: In article <55a43d0b.6030...@hiwaay.net>, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: -=-=-=-=-=- On 07/13/15 11:12, Christos Zoulas wrote: In article <55a3d796.60...@hiwaay.net>, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: [stuff deleted] Anything on this, anyone ? I am (

Re: Prepping to install: a digression

2015-07-13 Thread Christos Zoulas
In article <55a43d0b.6030...@hiwaay.net>, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >-=-=-=-=-=- > >On 07/13/15 11:12, Christos Zoulas wrote: >> In article <55a3d796.60...@hiwaay.net>, >> William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >> >> [stuff deleted] >> >>> Anything on this, anyone ? I am (re-)reading the online raid

Re: Prepping to install: a digression

2015-07-13 Thread William A. Mahaffey III
On 07/13/15 16:56, Robert Elz wrote: Date:Mon, 13 Jul 2015 16:06:14 + (UTC) From:chris...@astron.com (Christos Zoulas) Message-ID: | Did the raid autoconfigure at this point? If it did, then you could boot -a | and enter raid0a for the root device. Unf

Re: Prepping to install: a digression

2015-07-13 Thread William A. Mahaffey III
On 07/13/15 11:12, Christos Zoulas wrote: In article <55a3d796.60...@hiwaay.net>, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: [stuff deleted] Anything on this, anyone ? I am (re-)reading the online raidctl & installboot man pages, but I am out of ideas for now Any more info needed, please ask, & *any

Re: Prepping to install: a digression

2015-07-13 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Mon, 13 Jul 2015 16:06:14 + (UTC) From:chris...@astron.com (Christos Zoulas) Message-ID: | Did the raid autoconfigure at this point? If it did, then you could boot -a | and enter raid0a for the root device. Unfortunately, I don't think he can - he suffer

Re: Prepping to install: a digression

2015-07-13 Thread Christos Zoulas
In article <55a3d796.60...@hiwaay.net>, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: [stuff deleted] >Anything on this, anyone ? I am (re-)reading the online raidctl & >installboot man pages, but I am out of ideas for now Any more info >needed, please ask, & *any* help appreciated, I am stuck :-(

Re: Prepping to install: a digression

2015-07-13 Thread William A. Mahaffey III
On 07/11/15 11:06, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: On 07/06/15 15:52, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: On 07/04/15 09:51, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: On 07/01/15 19:38, Robert Elz wrote: Date:Wed, 01 Jul 2015 10:40:24 -0453 From:"William A. Mahaffey III" Message

Re: Prepping to install: a digression

2015-07-11 Thread William A. Mahaffey III
On 07/06/15 15:52, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: On 07/04/15 09:51, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: On 07/01/15 19:38, Robert Elz wrote: Date:Wed, 01 Jul 2015 10:40:24 -0453 From:"William A. Mahaffey III" Message-ID: <55940871.60...@hiwaay.net> | However, th

Re: Prepping to install: a digression

2015-07-06 Thread William A. Mahaffey III
On 07/04/15 09:51, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: On 07/01/15 19:38, Robert Elz wrote: Date:Wed, 01 Jul 2015 10:40:24 -0453 From:"William A. Mahaffey III" Message-ID: <55940871.60...@hiwaay.net> | However, this time | I can boot back into the boot media wh

Re: Prepping to install: a digression

2015-07-04 Thread William A. Mahaffey III
On 07/01/15 19:38, Robert Elz wrote: Date:Wed, 01 Jul 2015 10:40:24 -0453 From:"William A. Mahaffey III" Message-ID: <55940871.60...@hiwaay.net> | However, this time | I can boot back into the boot media when I plug it in & reboot, I think | because I *d

Re: Prepping to install: a digression

2015-07-01 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Wed, 01 Jul 2015 10:40:24 -0453 From:"William A. Mahaffey III" Message-ID: <55940871.60...@hiwaay.net> | However, this time | I can boot back into the boot media when I plug it in & reboot, I think | because I *didn't* do the 'raidctl -A root raid0' comma

Re: Prepping to install: a digression

2015-06-30 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Tue, 30 Jun 2015 08:34:29 -0453 From:"William A. Mahaffey III" Message-ID: <5592996e.50...@hiwaay.net> | I am seeking highest storage density/usage with more reliability than | RAID0, so RAID5 (or possibly RAID0 w/ another machine backing up) looks | like

Re: Prepping to install: a digression

2015-06-30 Thread William A. Mahaffey III
On 06/30/15 04:31, Robert Elz wrote: Date:Mon, 29 Jun 2015 22:54:19 -0453 From:"William A. Mahaffey III" Message-ID: <55921174.3020...@hiwaay.net> | Which is right, the list & I or those lying man pages ? The list, and the man pages, both say the same thing a

Re: Prepping to install: a digression

2015-06-30 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Mon, 29 Jun 2015 22:54:19 -0453 From:"William A. Mahaffey III" Message-ID: <55921174.3020...@hiwaay.net> | Which is right, the list & I or those lying man pages ? The list, and the man pages, both say the same thing as I recall. For any stripe on the raid, N-

Prepping to install: a digression

2015-06-29 Thread William A. Mahaffey III
I found 2 different online man pages describing the raidctl utility under NetBSD 6: http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?raidctl+8+NetBSD-6.0.1 http://www.unix.com/man-page/netbsd/8/raidctl/ Both describe 4 RAID levels available under raidframe: 0, 1, 4, 5. However, the pages both say RAID5