On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 10:41:56AM +0100, Zé Loff wrote: > > Hi all > > I connected my laptop's encrypted HDD to my desktop machine to copy some > stuff and when I put it back on the laptop the boot loader no longer > asks for the passphrase and thus I can't boot from it. Any clues? Some > notes: > > - Both machines are amd64 running snapshots, 6.2 #115 (Sep 27) on the > laptop, 6.1 #125 (Oct 1) on the desktop (I had to disable pcppi on the > desktop, so not exactly vanilla). > > - The softraid volume was and still is correctly attached/detached on > the desktop and on a i386 machine running 6.1-release+mtier > > - The metadata changed when connecting to the desktop, roaming from sd1 > to sd3. I attached/detached it on the i386 machine to make it roam > back to sd1, just in case, but it expectedly made no difference. > > - I ran installboot on the softraid volume, to no avail. > > - Tried booting bsd.rd from a USB stick, starting an upgrade, dropping > to shell, MAKEDEV sd0 sd1 sd2, attaching the crypto volume and > selecting it as the root disk. The installer complains that it is not > a valid root disk even though all tests mention here[1] pass: > > > [1] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-bugs&m=150170071321416&w=2
Strike that last one. Forgot to umount /mnt before going back to the installer, so the "mount test" failed in the installer. Just managed to do the upgrade and it's all back to normal now. Anyway, I took a bit of a scare there. Can anyone shed some light on to what happened? Is a CAVEAT in order? I can try to write something up, but I'd need to understand it first... > Any hints? Thanks in advance > Zé > > -- > > --
