It's been a while since i last installed on sparc64,
but i remember putting the rootfs and subvolumes on raid1, but i made a
separate boot partition on each drive, then used a shutdown script that
kept the two boot partitions in sync.
IIRC, ofwboot will just look for the kernel on the first boot partition
it finds, so as long as the two partitions stay synced it should boot
fine after disk removal / failure.
On 2019-07-01 13:02, Chris Ross wrote:
On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 09:23:56PM -0400, Chris Ross wrote:
On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 03:12:22PM -0400, Gao-Mi Baohao wrote:
> Here's your debug build of ofwboot.
Thanks. Unfortunately, I can't install that. Maybe a size issue?
I'll look into the installboot code, but let me know if you have an
idea.
Okay, looking at installboot, BIOCINSTALLBOOT, and sys/dev/softraid.c,
I
see that sr_ioctl_installboot() returns an error without explanatory
output
if the bootblk or bootloader provided to it are "too big". For boot
loader,
that's:
if (bb->bb_bootldr_size > SR_BOOT_LOADER_SIZE * DEV_BSIZE)
and SR_BOOTLOADER_SIZE is 320, so assuming DEV_BSIZE is 512 bytes,
that's
160kb. The debugging ofwboot was 250, so too big.
Anyone else have an idea what I could try to see why ofwboot seems not
to
be able to load and boot my system from my RAID1 softraid on sparc64?
- Chris
(bits of earlier off-list email showing the failure to install the
build of
ofwboot compiled with debugging:)
# ls -l
total 972
-rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 5840 Apr 14 05:37 bootblk
-r--r--r-- 1 root bin 102344 Apr 14 05:37 ofwboot
-rw------- 1 root wheel 253802 Jun 30 21:20 ofwboot.debug
-r--r--r-- 1 root bin 54416 Apr 14 05:37 ofwboot.net
-r--r--r-- 1 root bin 54160 Apr 14 05:37 ofwbootfd
# chmod 644 ofwboot.debug
# installboot -v sd4
Using / as root
installing bootstrap on /dev/rsd4c
using first-stage /usr/mdec/bootblk, second-stage /usr/mdec/ofwboot
boot block is 5840 bytes (12 blocks @ 512 bytes = 6144 bytes)
sd4: softraid volume with 2 disk(s)
sd4: installing boot loader on softraid volume
sd2a: installing boot blocks on /dev/rsd2c
writing boot block to disk /dev/rsd2c
sd3a: installing boot blocks on /dev/rsd3c
writing boot block to disk /dev/rsd3c
# installboot -v sd4 /usr/mdec/bootblk /usr/mdec/ofwboot.debug
Using / as root
installing bootstrap on /dev/rsd4c
using first-stage /usr/mdec/bootblk, second-stage
/usr/mdec/ofwboot.debug
boot block is 5840 bytes (12 blocks @ 512 bytes = 6144 bytes)
sd4: softraid volume with 2 disk(s)
sd4: installing boot loader on softraid volume
installboot: softraid installboot failed
# installboot -v sd4 /usr/mdec/bootblk /usr/mdec/ofwboot.debug
Using / as root
installing bootstrap on /dev/rsd4c
using first-stage /usr/mdec/bootblk, second-stage
/usr/mdec/ofwboot.debug
boot block is 5840 bytes (12 blocks @ 512 bytes = 6144 bytes)
sd4: softraid volume with 2 disk(s)
sd4: installing boot loader on softraid volume
installboot: softraid installboot failed
# file *
bootblk: data
ofwboot: ELF 64-bit MSB executable, SPARC V9, version 1
ofwboot.debug: ELF 64-bit MSB executable, SPARC V9, version 1
ofwboot.net: ELF 64-bit MSB executable, SPARC V9, version 1
ofwbootfd: ELF 64-bit MSB executable, SPARC V9, version 1
# ls -l *
-rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 5840 Apr 14 05:37 bootblk
-r--r--r-- 1 root bin 102344 Apr 14 05:37 ofwboot
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 253802 Jun 30 21:20 ofwboot.debug
-r--r--r-- 1 root bin 54416 Apr 14 05:37 ofwboot.net
-r--r--r-- 1 root bin 54160 Apr 14 05:37 ofwbootfd
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