> From meun...@ccs.neu.edu Mon Aug 21 15:08:32 2017 > Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2017 15:42:27 -0400 > From: Philippe Meunier <meun...@ccs.neu.edu> > To: Ted Unangst <t...@tedunangst.com> > Subject: Re: Full disk encryption questions > > Ted Unangst wrote: > >Philippe Meunier wrote: > >> - is the panic intended (well, known to the developers and considered > >> normal; I hesitate to call it a feature) or is it an oversight? > > > >no, nothing bioctl does should kill init like that. > > Well, it does, and it's reproducible.
I randomly stumbled upon this same issue when I ran bioctl -d on the wrong disk last night. > >> - I would have thought that, once the softraid volume has been created, its > >> metadata wouldn't need to change (unless the passphrase is changed, or the > >> volume is roaming, as seen above). Any idea why part of it gets trashed? > > > >that's true, but maybe a stray write killed it? > > It happens even in single-user mode when only / is mounted read-only and > only init and a shell are running. I am going to dump the first few hundred sectors of my disk before attempting to fix this with installboot. Hopefully I can see what changes. > I don't know whether the "cross-device install" message is supposed to be > just informative or indicates an error... > Anyway, upon rebooting the machine, I still get the same > "open(hd0a:/etc/boot.conf): Invalid argument" error message. > > Philippe Try boot sr0a:bsd. That works for me. It looks like something causes it not to attempt booting sr0 first. Martin
