Hi All, I recently installed 6.0 and was struggling to get my softraid0 stripe to build properly and or boot. I went over section 14 carefully and did some research. The part that I found was missing was the creation of a 100 meg partition on the A slice and how to successfully create a bootable raid stripe. (I'm sure there is something somewhere that I missed, but I thought it would be awesome to include step #2 and #3 in the raid setup)
Target https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#softraid Source http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20111002154251 #1 - is kind of a question really. My issue was it took me several times to get my raid "perfect" during the process every failed attempt would result in portions of the raid remaining intact. IE fdisk would see RAID partitions that were not wiped or bioctl would think parts of the stripe were degraded etc.. ultimately my solution was to zero fill all of the disks and start fresh.. Is this the best way? or was there something simple I missed? #2 - update FAQ with the additional step to included the creation of the A slice as a boot device. (I)nstall, (U)pgrade or (S)hell? s # cd /dev # sh MAKEDEV wd1 # fdisk -iy wd0 Writing MBR at offset 0. # fdisk -iy wd1 Writing MBR at offset 0. # disklabel -E wd0 Label editor (enter '?' for help at any prompt) *> a a* *offset: [64]* *size: [4193216] 100m* *Rounding to cylinder: 209600* *FS type: [4.2BSD]* > a d offset: [209664] size: [3983616] FS type: [4.2BSD] raid > q Write new label?: [y] # disklabel wd0 > protofile # disklabel -R wd1 protofile # bioctl -c 1 -l wd0d,wd1d softraid0 sd0 at scsibus0 targ 1 lun 0: SCSI2 0/direct fixed sd0: 1944MB, 512 bytes/sector, 3983088 sectors # ^D #3 - add the bootdevice creation steps to prepare the above boot slice Welcome to the OpenBSD/i386 5.0 installation program. (I)nstall, (U)pgrade or (S)hell? i Before booting, don't forget to format the two "a" partitions and copy kernels onto them. This can be done before or after you run the installation script. Afterwards might be easier if you did a network install, since the kernels will be local to you now on /mnt/: # newfs wd0a newfs: reduced number of fragments per cylinder group from 13096 to 13040 to enlarge last cylinder group /dev/rwd0a: 102.3MB in 209600 sectors of 512 bytes 5 cylinder groups of 25.47MB, 1630 blocks, 3328 inodes each super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at: 32, 52192, 104352, 156512, 208672, # newfs wd1a newfs: reduced number of fragments per cylinder group from 13096 to 13040 to enlarge last cylinder group /dev/rwd1a: 102.3MB in 209600 sectors of 512 bytes 5 cylinder groups of 25.47MB, 1630 blocks, 3328 inodes each super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at: 32, 52192, 104352, 156512, 208672, # mount /dev/wd0a /mnt2 # cp /mnt/bsd* /mnt2 # umount /mnt2 # mount /dev/wd1a /mnt2 # cp /mnt/bsd* /mnt2 # umount /mnt2 Thanks, Cheers
