m fairly new to OpenBSD (been using FreeBSD for years) and have
stumbled across some issues on a desktop install (after several server
based installs over the past few months).
The system has two identical drives (WD 250G) which I wish to RAID
(1). As i understand it openbsd has no support for my onboard raid
system (NF4 board , eVga 680i) so am to use kernel options.
I enable the raid1 in the bios options and install windows on an 80gb
partition (of the 250GB drive it sees.) and can boot successfully. I
then install OpenBSD on the rest of the drive (wd0) making sure to
slice it up carefully (identical to the howto but with increased /usr
space). I then install the required components and complete the
install by ensuring the installboot runs (with correct references too
wd0) and issue the dd command (whilst reference /dev/rwd0a for copying
to openbsd.pbr).
This all seems fine and I then configure windows to boot it which
also works well. Its when I select this new Openbsd boot option I get
the error:
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As I understand it I have some how messed up the secondary loader and
it needs to be reinstalled , so i did a new install . I reinstalled
the system 5 times over a day trying to work out my problem.
wd0 is partitioned with the 80GB for windows and the rest devoted to
OpenBSD and wd1 is currently only partitioned for windows with the
rest 'free'.
Im at a dead end of where to turn next as I am sure this is an issue
with my onboard raid,drive setup and boot parameters as I can add
files to the drives when Im booted into the shell provided on the CD.
Any help would be appreciated.
disklabel :
# /dev/rwd0c:
type: ESDI
disk: ESDI/IDE disk
label: WDC WD2500KS-00M
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 16
sectors/cylinder: 1008
cylinders: 16383
total sectors: 488397168
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0 # microseconds
track-to-track seek: 0 # microseconds
drivedata: 0
16 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
a: 306873 163846935 4.2BSD 2048 16384 304 # Cyl 162546*-162850
b: 614880 164153808 swap # Cyl 162851 -163460
c: 488397168 0 unused 0 0 # Cyl 0 -484520
d: 245952 164768688 4.2BSD 2048 16384 244 # Cyl 163461 -163704
e: 164304 165014640 4.2BSD 2048 16384 164 # Cyl 163705 -163867
f: 323213121 165178944 4.2BSD 2048 16384 328 # Cyl 163868 -484515*
i: 163846872 63 unknown # Cyl 0*-162546*
[disklabel]
fdisk
Disk: wd0 geometry: 30401/255/63 [488392065 Sectors]
Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending LBA Info:
#: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
*0: 07 0 1 1 - 10198 254 63 [ 63: 163846872 ] HPFS/QNX/AUX
1: A6 10199 0 1 - 30400 254 63 [ 163846935: 324545130 ] OpenBSD
2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused
3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused
installboot
boot: /mnt/boot
proto : /usr/mdec/biosboot
device: /dev/rwd0c
/usr/dec/biosboot : entry point 0
proto bootblock size 512
/mnt/boot is 3 blocks x 16384 bytes
fs block shift 2; part offset 163846935; inode block 128, offset 5416
using MBR partition 1: type 166 (0xa60 offsetn 163846935 (0x9c41b1)
This is purely a trial run install before the release of 4.2 as I knew
I would come across some issues trying to create my setup. I would
ideally like to keep the raid 1 setup but appreciate I may have to
have each drive reserved for each individual OS.
