Re: OpenBSD SPARC T4-1 softraid boot issues

This was bothering me, so I did a bit of looking. According to slide 32 of this: https://www.slideshare.net/solarisyougood/sparc-t4-1-system-technical-overview 'The SPARC T4-1 has Dual LSI SAS2008 8port SAS2/SATA2 controllers' The LSI SAS2008 is apparently quite well supported by the

Re: OpenBSD SPARC T4-1 softraid boot issues

On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 1:45 AM, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 02:29:09PM -0800, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: > > Cannot boot from softraid: Unknown error: code 19 > > > > Any ideas? > > In this condition, the boot loader has not assembled a softraid volume. > >

Re: OpenBSD SPARC T4-1 softraid boot issues

I'm afraid I don't know the answer to that, sorry. Not sure if anyone does... I think the SCSI HBA driver is the same on SPARC64 as on AMD64, but then Sun had a habit of "improving" control interfaces for Solaris so who knows. I do know under Solaris there is a bioctl-like tool to manage it,

Re: OpenBSD SPARC T4-1 softraid boot issues

Yes I had considered using the onboard hardware raid, but I don't particularly trust it. I also need the ability to rebuild my arrays while the machine is online and was hoping to be able to do the 3 disk RAID1 offered by OpenBSD softraid. Do you know if bioctl(8) is capable of controlling the

Re: OpenBSD SPARC T4-1 softraid boot issues

On 2017-12-26 14:56, Jordan wrote: I've recently gotten my hands on a couple shiny new SPARC T4-1 and T3-1 servers and I was looking to install OpenBSD with a softraid mirror on them for production use. The problem is, is that I end up with this upon following the install instructions and

Re: OpenBSD SPARC T4-1 softraid boot issues

On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 02:08:58AM -0800, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: > I will check to see if the T4 will boot from crypto softraid and will also > crack open the box for the T3-1 to see if I can get it booting from > softraid. The disks should be being scanned correctly during the device-tree >

Re: OpenBSD SPARC T4-1 softraid boot issues

I will check to see if the T4 will boot from crypto softraid and will also crack open the box for the T3-1 to see if I can get it booting from softraid. The disks should be being scanned correctly during the device-tree walk, as I am able to set the machine to autoboot when installed to a

Re: OpenBSD SPARC T4-1 softraid boot issues

On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 02:29:09PM -0800, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: > Cannot boot from softraid: Unknown error: code 19 > > Any ideas? In this condition, the boot loader has not assembled a softraid volume. Which means that either the disks which make up the volume aren't being scanned during the

Re: OpenBSD SPARC T4-1 softraid boot issues

On Dec 27, 2017 8:07 PM, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: > > Did you: > > # newfs /dev/rsd(whichever is correct) > > before reboot? > > That doesn't make sense. What would I be making a new filesystem for -- or > on, for that matter. Disk formatting is taken care of by the

Re: OpenBSD SPARC T4-1 softraid boot issues

Did you: # newfs /dev/rsd(whichever is correct) before reboot? That doesn't make sense. What would I be making a new filesystem for -- or on, for that matter. Disk formatting is taken care of by the installer script. Did you: cp your kernels to the new sd's Again, this doesn't make sense.

Re: OpenBSD SPARC T4-1 softraid boot issues

On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 03:01:12PM -0800, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: > sparc* is not an fdisk / MBR platform I don't have one :( more inline > > > > On 12/27/17 14:56, Edgar Pettijohn wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 02:29:09PM -0800, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: > > > I tried installing again and

Re: OpenBSD SPARC T4-1 softraid boot issues

sparc* is not an fdisk / MBR platform On 12/27/17 14:56, Edgar Pettijohn wrote: On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 02:29:09PM -0800, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: I tried installing again and followed your instructions to a T and the installer hung after typing reboot at the prompt upon finishing install. I

Re: OpenBSD SPARC T4-1 softraid boot issues

On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 02:29:09PM -0800, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: > I tried installing again and followed your instructions to a T and the > installer hung after typing reboot at the prompt upon finishing install. > > I let it sit for 10-15 minutes after entering reboot command but then >

Re: OpenBSD SPARC T4-1 softraid boot issues

I tried installing again and followed your instructions to a T and the installer hung after typing reboot at the prompt upon finishing install. I let it sit for 10-15 minutes after entering reboot command but then determined it had likely frozen considering it said the disks had been synced

Re: OpenBSD SPARC T4-1 softraid boot issues

Thanks for the clarification Stefan. Did you have to manually run installboot(8) or is the bootloader stuff taken care of automatically by the install script? On 12/27/17 04:52, Stefan Sperling wrote: On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 12:56:53PM -0800, Jordan wrote: The install procedure I followed

Re: OpenBSD SPARC T4-1 softraid boot issues

On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 12:56:53PM -0800, Jordan wrote: > The install procedure I followed on the T4 was: > > 1) Boot install kernel and drop to shell and provision RAID partitions on > both disks using the letter “a” via disklabel(8) > > 2) Assemble RAID volume with # bioctl -c 1 -l

Re: OpenBSD SPARC T4-1 softraid boot issues

Thanks Edgar for catching that typo, step 3 should indeed read: 3) I zeroed the first 10MB of the RAID volume with # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd2c bs=1m count=1 That is the command I used on the T4, I accidental wrote urandom rather than zero when I was typing the email. On 12/26/17 13:52,

Re: OpenBSD SPARC T4-1 softraid boot issues

On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 12:56:53PM -0800, Jordan wrote: > Hi everyone, long time lurker, first time poster. I've been around since the > 5.* days, so I would consider myself fairly seasoned in the ways of OpenBSD. > I've obviously done the RTFM dance, done it once, done it twice, been doing > it

OpenBSD SPARC T4-1 softraid boot issues

Hi everyone, long time lurker, first time poster. I've been around since the 5.* days, so I would consider myself fairly seasoned in the ways of OpenBSD. I've obviously done the RTFM dance, done it once, done it twice, been doing it all week long now-- this problem really has me banging my