On 2013/04/14 01:27, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2013/04/13 16:50, Raymond Lillard wrote: > > I have 4 140GB drives and want to configure sd0 & sd1 as root-on-softraid > > > > I have done this in the past with amd64 machines, but this is not working > > for me on this machine. > > This is only supported in certain bootloaders, I believe only amd64/i386 at > present. >
Ah sorry I was confusing boot-from-softraid (which it looks like sparc64 can do) with root-on-softraid (which I still believe is just amd64/i386).. > > First problem is: > > When I boot in step 3, all four disks appear in the roll call as expected > > in dmesg, but when I try the command "disklabel sd3", rsd3 is not found. > > > > Why ??? This seems like a bug to me. The device nodes are normally created in the installer when needed, I think this is to save inodes on the ramdisk. > > 1: I zero the first 10MB of all four disks with dd > > 2: I power cycle the box and boot form a cdrom snapshot from April 10 > > 3: I use disklabel check that all disks have only C partitions I'm not sure offhand where softraid metadata are stored to suggest how much needs blanking, but obviously this must be further into the disk than the partition table, you probably just need to go a bit further with blanking. When I'm doing this I normally don't specify a count and just hit ^C after a few seconds...not exactly scientific but works for me.
