On 2017-04-21 10:50, Stefan Sperling wrote:
On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 09:04:07AM +0200, Mickael Torres wrote:
On 2017-04-21 02:13, Jeff wrote:
> I have a Sunfire V120 (Sparc) with mirrored disks running OpenBSD 6.0.
> ...
> First I tried to copy bsd.rd to / and boot from it. When I boot
> using 6.1 bsd.rd (boot /bsd.rd), the boot messages still show
> OpenBSD 6.0.
Hi Jeff,
If you use softraid on sparc64, you should have a small ffs FS on your
first disk, containing the kernel and ofwboot.
That *is* where you should put the new bsd.rd, and copy the new
kernel(s)
at the end of install.
The firmware doesn't know how to boot a softraid volume, hence the
need
for this small FS.
A separate boot partition is not required.
The first stage boot loader is a Forth script which reads a second
stage
(ofwboot) from the softraid meta data area. ofwboot will load a kernel
from RAID1 and CRYPTO volumes. See the last few slides in
https://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon2015-softraid-boot.pdf
The install/upgrade scripts run installboot(8) to set this up.
The only differences to i386/amd64 is that bootable sparc64 RAID
partitions
must use the letter 'a' (the first stage does not try any other
letters) and
that the boot-device and boot-file open firmware environment variables
must
be set up correctly (see boot_sparc64(8)).
Wow, you've just made my day!
Thanks, Stefan.
Best regards,
Mickael.
