Here is some instrumentation I found useful during my recent debugging. If there are no objections, I'd like to commit soon.
The change to rf_containsroot() simplifies the second DPRINTF that I added. Index: rf_netbsdkintf.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/src/sys/dev/raidframe/rf_netbsdkintf.c,v retrieving revision 1.356 diff -u -r1.356 rf_netbsdkintf.c --- rf_netbsdkintf.c 23 Jan 2018 22:42:29 -0000 1.356 +++ rf_netbsdkintf.c 20 Jan 2019 22:32:14 -0000 @@ -472,6 +472,9 @@ const char *bootname = device_xname(bdv); size_t len = strlen(bootname); + if (bdv == NULL) + return 0; + for (int col = 0; col < r->numCol; col++) { const char *devname = r->Disks[col].devname; devname += sizeof("/dev/") - 1; @@ -509,8 +512,8 @@ cset->ac->clabel->autoconfigure == 1) { sc = rf_auto_config_set(cset); if (sc != NULL) { - aprint_debug("raid%d: configured ok\n", - sc->sc_unit); + aprint_debug("raid%d: configured ok, rootable %d\n", + sc->sc_unit, cset->rootable); if (cset->rootable) { rsc = sc; num_root++; @@ -534,8 +537,10 @@ /* if the user has specified what the root device should be then we don't touch booted_device or boothowto... */ - if (rootspec != NULL) + if (rootspec != NULL) { + DPRINTF("%s: rootspec %s\n", __func__, rootspec); return; + } /* we found something bootable... */ @@ -577,9 +582,9 @@ candidate_root = dksc->sc_dev; DPRINTF("%s: candidate root=%p\n", __func__, candidate_root); DPRINTF("%s: booted_device=%p root_partition=%d " - "contains_boot=%d\n", __func__, booted_device, - rsc->sc_r.root_partition, - rf_containsboot(&rsc->sc_r, booted_device)); + "contains_boot=%d", + __func__, booted_device, rsc->sc_r.root_partition, + rf_containsboot(&rsc->sc_r, booted_device)); if (booted_device == NULL || rsc->sc_r.root_partition == 1 || rf_containsboot(&rsc->sc_r, booted_device)) {