On 2025-11-07 21:58:35+0000, Crystal Kolipe <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 07, 2025 at 02:52:17PM -0700, Luke A. Call wrote:
> > On 2025-11-07 20:44:28+0000, Crystal Kolipe <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > On Fri, Nov 07, 2025 at 01:28:17PM -0700, Luke A. Call wrote:
> > > > On 2025-11-07 18:45:00+0000, Crystal Kolipe
> > > > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, Nov 06, 2025 at 02:33:20PM -0700, Luke A. Call wrote:
> > > > > > Hi. I am upgrading my test (& backup) laptop from 7.7 to 7.8, and
> > > > > > running sysupgrade rebooted it, but after I entered the FDE key, it
> > > > > > checks hardware or something for a bit then I think I see "panic"
> > > > > > flash on the screen, and it reboots, even from single-user
> > > > > > mode. Unfortunately that doesn't let me provide a dmesg. It is an
> > > > > > old dell inspiron.
> > > > >
> > > > > Based on the information you've provided, my first guess is that it's
> > > > > not finding the root filesystem. Since you're using FDE and the
> > > > > physical
> > > > > disk is recognised as wd0, (and there are no other physical disks),
> > > > > your
> > > > > softraid cryto device would be sd0.
> > > > >
> > > > > > So I tried running upgrade from a CD with cd78.iso on it. After the
> > > > > > prompt to choose a keyboard, it asks which disk is the root disk.
> > > > > > Typing "?" for details says "wd0: ....", which I believe is
> > > > > > correct, but
> > > > > > entering wd0 at the prompt gives "wd0 is not a valid root disk", or
> > > > > > for
> > > > > > other variations besides wd0, it says "no such disk").
> > > > >
> > > > > On your system:
> > > > >
> > > > > wd0 is a valid physical disk. It is not the volume that holds the
> > > > > root
> > > > > filesystem.
> > > > >
> > > > > sd0 should appear once the softraid crypto volume, which resides on
> > > > > wd0,
> > > > > is attached. For some reason this doesn't seem to be happening.
> > > > >
> > > > > It might provide useful information if you can boot in to bsd.rd from
> > > > > OpenBSD 7.8-release, (booting from the CD), drop to a shell, and
> > > > > manually
> > > > > try to attach the softraid volume with bioctl. Knowing whether that
> > > > > succeeds
> > > > > would narrow down the possibilities a bit.
> > > >
> > > > Thank you. Would this be the right command to attach it?
> > > > bioctl -cC -l sd0a softraid0
> > >
> > > No, first there should be a space between -c and C, and secondly the
> > > device
> > > you specify to -l is supposed to be the partition that holds the
> > > underlying
> > > softraid volume. On your machine this is most likely wd0a, or if not,
> > > it's
> > > another partition on wd0.
> > >
> > > So you probably want:
> > >
> > > bioctl -c C -l wd0a softraid0
> >
> > I have tried bioctl -c C -l wd0[a-s] softraid0
> > ...and with "/dev/wd0[a-c]" and with just wd0,
> > ...and I am feeling error prone and am probably doing something stupid,
>
> You did make the device files first, didn't you?
>
> # cd /dev
> # sh ./MAKEDEV wd0
> # sh ./MAKEDEV sd0
I hadn't (not understanding how much of this was pre-existing due to the
data already being on that volume, or something), but doing that
worked!:
softraid0: CRYPTO volume attached as sd0
What next?
