On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 03:30:04PM +0100, Stefan Wollny wrote:
Gesendet: Freitag, 11. Dezember 2015 um 14:52 Uhr
Von: "Stefan Sperling" <s...@stsp.name>
An: "Stefan Wollny" <ste...@wollny.de>
Cc: misc@openbsd.org
Betreff: Re: NOT POSSIBLE: Fully encrypted system with keydisk
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 01:18:55PM +0100, Stefan Wollny wrote:
> OK - follow up problem: After the installation on /dev/sd3 (plus setting up
/dev/sd4 for /home) I did not reboot but run installboot(8) like so:
> # /usr/sbin/installboot sd3
>
> This last produced an error message about /usr/mdec/biosboot missing.
>
> Mind giving me an other hint on what I might have missed? I searched the man
pages but nothing obvious came to me. Has there been some recent changes?
In the bsd.rd ramdisk, the installed system's root disk (sd3a) is mounted
at /mnt, and the installed system's user partition is mounted at /mnt/usr.
So this should work: /mnt/usr/sbin/installboot -r /mnt sd3
Hi Stefan,
THX a lot for (again) helping me and the explanation.
I run the command like you adviced and no error message showed up.
So far, so good - unfortunatelly the system still does not boot after the
'reboot'. Still stops at the manufacturers splash screen not recognizing any
storage device to boot from.
Any other idea? Could it be that this machine's particular BIOS needs an 'a'
partition on sd0 to find the device? As the system is unusable at present and I
need to disassemble the SSDs anyway to get them wiped in order to proceed with
the next install I will give this a try.
The layout of the paritions within the disklabel shouldn't be of any
concern to the BIOS.
There has been discusson on the list previously about buggy BIOSes that
lock up if a disk is connected that doesn't contain a standard MBR and
partition table. However, since you indicate that you can install and
boot OpenBSD on a non-encrypted volume on the same disks, that doesn't
seem like the problem.
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