I’m following the documentation in OpenBSD FAQ: disk setup. I’m inclined to think there is a code issue since I specified device sd4 and installboot used that device for the first stage and then seems to have defaulted to sd0 for the second stage bootloader.
EZ Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 29, 2018, at 4:01 AM, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > >> On 2018-04-29, Eric Zylstra <ezyls...@mac.com> wrote: >> I’m installing 6.3 on a RAID1. Install was fine until ending with an error >> message, “invalid boot record signature…”. >> >> I manually ran installboot: >>> . installboot -v -r /mnt sd4 >> >> Hand transcription: >> >> Using /mnt as root >> Installing bootstrap on /dev/rsd4c >> Using first-stage /mnt/usr/mdec/biosboot, second-stage /mnt/usr/mdec/boot >> sd4: softraid volume with 2 disk(s) >> sd4: installing boot loader on softraid volume >> /mnt/usr/mdec/boot is 6 blocks x 16384 bytes >> sd0a: installing boot blocks on /dev/rsd0c, part offset 144 >> Master boot record (MBR) at sector 0 >> Install boot: invalid boot record signature (0x0000) @ sector 0 >> >> I did not typo the secondary boot block install. It attempts to install on >> sd0 instead of sd4 as specified in my command. > > With softraid the bootblock is installed on all component disks of a raid1. > > Since the installer doesn't directly support softraid...what did you type > earlier to prepare this? >
