On 10/11, Stefan Sperling wrote:
On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 04:51:58PM -0700, Scott Bonds wrote:
installboot: no OpenBSD partition
That's the cruicial hint ^
If you see any error from installboot, you can run installboot
with the -n and -v options to diagnose further.
While in bsd.rd, you need to specify an absolute path, and add
the -r /mnt option: /mnt/usr/sbin/installboot -n -v -r /mnt sd4
got it
> Did you run fdisk -iy sd2 ?
No. I didn't realize I needed to. I was attempting to follow the FDE section
of the softraid FAQ: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#softraid but just
substitute a keydisk for the passphrase, but sounds like I guessed
wrong...sorry for the noise, I'll poke around some more online and see what
else has been written. Sounds like the keydisk needs to be bootable, and
maybe the installer doesn't help with that. The bioctl man page doesn't have
much to say on the subject.
installboot(8) attempts to install boot blocks on each disk which is
part of a softraid volume. For CRYPTO volumes, this includes the keydisk.
Whether or not this is intentional, I cannot tell (jsing@ might know).
So I suppose your problem is that if there's no MBR with an OpenBSD
partition on the keydisk, installing boot blocks to the keydisk fails.
got it
fdisk -iy sd2, that is, adding an MBR to the keydisk allowed the install
to complete successfully
In any case, I don't think there is a bug here.
agreed, I made an incorrect assumption about how it worked
If you want the documentation fixed, please send a patch to improve it.
sounds good, I'll do that
and thanks
