On 24.12.2011 P3. 15:06 Q., Josh Grosse wrote:
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 02:26:26PM +0200, Ivo Chutkin wrote:
Sorry for hijacking this tread.
Can someone take time to clarify install process on softraid.
I read the article on undeadly.org, preform the install on sd2, my
softraid0, copy kernels on sd0a and sd1a, everything went well, and
after reboot, it does not find bootable media.
I put install cd, drop to shell, mount sd0a, then sd1a and then
sd2a, everything is there.
Do I miss some obvious step here...
Can you point out what is wrong?
The kernels are loaded from outside the softraid array (sd0a, or sd1a) by
the second stage bootloader. But the second stage bootloader is loaded from
the array. So, assuming sd2 is your softraid array, and you have an sd2a
root partition, reboot the install cd and try:
# mount /dev/sd2a /mnt
# cp -p /usr/mdec/boot /mnt/boot
# /usr/mdec/installboot -v /mnt/boot /usr/mdec/biosboot sd2
It is AMD64 20 December snapshot on HP microserver. I cannot take
dmesg at this point. I can take one from standard install if you
need it.
Both amd64 and i386 use the same installboot(8) program.
Hi Josh,
I try it but it does not boot as well.
Here is what I do step by step:
1.boot from cd
2.drop to shell
3.cd /dev, sh MAKEDEV sd1
4.fdisk -iy sd0 and sd1
5.disklabel -E sd0, add a, 100m, add d, the rest of disk, raid fail system
6. disklabel -R sd1 disklabel.sd1
7. bioctl -c 1 -l sd0d,sd1d softraid0
8.^D
9.install
10. when I am asked which one I wish to initiate i choose sd2 which is
my raid partition.
11. continue with normal install and / is on sd2a
12. newfs sd0a and sd1a
13. copy kernels to sd0a and sd1a
everything went well
I tried "installboot" step before and after reboot, it does not boot.
I will change hardware now to check if it could be some HP specific problem.
Thanks,
Ivo
