On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 11:42:03PM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 11:14:34PM +0100, Dennis Nuesser wrote: > > Hello, > > > > > > thanks to those of you working on the arm64 port of OpenBSD, as well as > > working > > > > on this great OS as a whole! > > > > I spend a couple of days now trying to get a FDE install of OpenBSD 6.8 > > working without > > > > success. I tried different methods, hence, my knowledge about the boot > > process on > > > > aarch64/arm64 architecture is limited, so it is for x86 I'm afraid. The > > "error" I receive is > > > > that after a successful install, the boot process won't execute. > > Can you elaborate? At which point in the boot sequence does a failure occur? > What kind of failure is this? Do you see any error code or message? > > One thing I noticed by looking at sources is that installboot(8) on arm64 > doesn't seem to have any softraid support. This indicates that softraid boot > support for this platform is not yet complete...? > > installboot(8) needs to patch softraid meta-data to enable booting from the > softraid volume. If that doesn't happen then the system won't boot.
After reading more code it looks like arm64 might actually be getting away without arm64-specific code in installboot. Did you try it with a passphrase instead of a key disk? If that doesn't work either, I'm out of clues.
