On Fri, 21 Apr 2017, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 06:13:47PM -0600, Jeff wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a Sunfire V120 (Sparc) with mirrored disks running OpenBSD 6.0. > > I attempted to update to OpenBSD 6.1 using the files first from: > > > > http://mirrors.sonic.net/pub/OpenBSD/6.1/sparc64 > > > > Then from: > > > > https://ftp3.usa.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.1/sparc64 > > > > First I tried to copy bsd.rd to / and boot from it. When I boot > > using 6.1 bsd.rd (boot /bsd.rd), the boot messages still show > > OpenBSD 6.0. > > Did you actually type '/boot bsd.rd'? > When booting from softraid you need to pass the virtual 'sr' drive > as part of the boot path. Try again with: boot sr0a:/bsd.rd > > >From the boot_sparc64(8) man page: > > To boot from a softraid(4) volume by default, boot-device must be set to > a disk device hosting a chunk of the softraid volume: > > ok setenv boot-device disk0 > > and boot-file must contain the (sr) device name of the softraid volume > and optionally a partition letter and/or kernel: > > ok setenv boot-file sr0a:/bsd >
Hi Stefan, Thanks! I must have missed that man page when I originally installed 6.0. Booting with sr0a:/bsd* did work but it took a much longer time loading the symbols with both bsd & bsd.rd. I'll be sure to read that man page and try again later today after I'm done working (in case I muck it up again). Using a non-standard name for the bsd.rd file seems to help clarify things. ok printenv boot-device boot-device = disk1:a /pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@8/disk@1,0:a ok boot disk1:a /bsd.rd.61 ... Executing last command: boot disk1:a /bsd.rd.61 Boot device: /pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@8/disk@1,0:a File and args: /bsd.rd.61 OpenBSD IEEE 1275 Bootblock 1.4 ..>> OpenBSD BOOT 1.7 Can't read disk label. Can't open disk label package Drive not ready Can't read disk label. Can't open disk label package sr0* open /pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@8/disk@1,0:a/etc/random.seed: No such file or directory open /pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@8/disk@1,0:a/bsd.rd.61: No such file or directory Boot: lom> reset ok boot sr0a:/bsd.rd.61 Boot device: /pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@8/disk@1,0:a File and args: sr0a:/bsd.rd.61 OpenBSD IEEE 1275 Bootblock 1.4 ..>> OpenBSD BOOT 1.7 Can't read disk label. Can't open disk label package Drive not ready Can't read disk label. Can't open disk label package sr0* Booting sr0:a/bsd.rd.61 4045496@0x1000000+1352@0x13dbab8+3251904@0x1800000+942400@0x1b19ec0 symbols @ 0xfff42300 120 start=0x1000000 console is /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/isa@7/serial@0,3f8 Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 1995-2017 OpenBSD. All rights reserved. https://www.OpenBSD.org OpenBSD 6.1 (RAMDISK) #55: Sat Apr 1 17:41:52 MDT 2017 dera...@sparc64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc64/compile/RAMDISK
