I recently tried to install OpenBSD 5.8 on a Sun Fire, using a RAID-1 softraid as boot device. System doesn't boot though, and ends up with this:
> Sun Fire V245, No Keyboard > Copyright 2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. > OpenBoot 4.25.10, 4096 MB memory installed, Serial #67141234. > Ethernet address 0:12:33:0:11:aa, Host ID: 8400123a. > > Rebooting with command: boot > Boot device: disk0 File and args: sr0a:/bsd > OpenBSD IEEE 1275 Bootblock 1.4 > >> OpenBSD BOOT 1.7 > Unknown device: sr0 > Cannot boot from softraid: Unknown error: code 19 > Program terminated As the documentation for booting from softraid on sparc64 feels somewhat sparse, I'm not actually shure I set things up correctly: - from the install cd, created disklabels with a RAID partition on sd0 and sd1 - assembled softraid with bioctl: > # bioctl -c 1 -l /dev/sd0a,/dev/sd1a softraid0 > sd4 at scsibus2 targ 1 lun 0: <OPENBSD, SR RAID 1, 005> SCSI2 0/direct fixed > sd4: 70004MB, 512 bytes/sector, 143369136 sectors > softraid0: RAID 1 volume attached as sd4 (the system has two other disks) - ran ./install to install OpenBSD to sd4 - rebooted and set boot parameters as per boot_sparc64(8) Any steps I am missing? Any hints how to further debug this? Thanks, Alex.
