On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 05:27:31PM +0200, [email protected] wrote: > I had to go to "/dev" and execute "sh /dev/MAKEDEV" with all the sd0, sd1, > sd2, sd3, sd4 (maybe only sd2 was required), and then restart the upgrade > script.
That's somewhat expected. The installer doesn't support softraid yet. Strictly speaking, setups where system partitions (other than /home or other user data partitions) are hosted on softraid should currently be considered experimental. Manual intervention is required for such setups, and that includes creating disk device files that are missing from the ramdisk. Perhaps the install script could easily be fixed to create the necessary device files. But it needs a non-trivial amount of work to support installing to a softraid volume and also upgrading them (I've tried to write support for that a while back, it's not very simple). Also, not many architectures can currently boot from softraid, and I'm not sure whether all architectures can already host the root filesystem on it. BTW, I found that on sparc64, the ramdisk is so starved for inodes that creating device nodes for one or two additional disks will cause problems while downloading the sets. Fix is to remove unneeded devices from the /dev directory as well as creating the needed ones.
