Just a question: running on -current and, similar to the example, having the following disklabel:
/boot on both sd0a and sd1a / on sd2a which is the raid result of sd0d and sd1d would the snapshot upgrade process be consistent through the standard installer or should one always go to shell, make manual adjustments and then run install? Thanks Pasha On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Josh Grosse <j...@jggimi.homeip.net> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 02:26:26PM +0200, Ivo Chutkin wrote: > > > Sorry for hijacking this tread. > > Can someone take time to clarify install process on softraid. > > I read the article on undeadly.org, preform the install on sd2, my > > softraid0, copy kernels on sd0a and sd1a, everything went well, and > > after reboot, it does not find bootable media. > > I put install cd, drop to shell, mount sd0a, then sd1a and then > > sd2a, everything is there. > > Do I miss some obvious step here... > > Can you point out what is wrong? > > The kernels are loaded from outside the softraid array (sd0a, or sd1a) by > the second stage bootloader. But the second stage bootloader is loaded > from > the array. So, assuming sd2 is your softraid array, and you have an sd2a > root partition, reboot the install cd and try: > > # mount /dev/sd2a /mnt > # cp -p /usr/mdec/boot /mnt/boot > # /usr/mdec/installboot -v /mnt/boot /usr/mdec/biosboot sd2 > > > It is AMD64 20 December snapshot on HP microserver. I cannot take > > dmesg at this point. I can take one from standard install if you > > need it. > > Both amd64 and i386 use the same installboot(8) program.
