Thanks for the clarification Stefan. Did you have to manually run
installboot(8) or is the bootloader stuff taken care of automatically by
the install script?
On 12/27/17 04:52, Stefan Sperling wrote:
On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 12:56:53PM -0800, Jordan wrote:
The install procedure I followed on the T4 was:
1) Boot install kernel and drop to shell and provision RAID partitions on
both disks using the letter “a” via disklabel(8)
2) Assemble RAID volume with # bioctl -c 1 -l /dev/sd0a,/dev/sd1a softraid0
3) I zeroed the first 10MB of the RAID volume with # dd if=/dev/urandom
of=/dev/rsd2c bs=1m
Step 3 might get you in trouble. You're writing to the raw disk device
so this command might nuke disklabel and/or softraid meta data.
4) I finished off the install as usual by typing ”install” into command line
and proceeded normally
5) I then rebooted and set the boot parameters at the ok prompt as per
boot_sparc(8)
In short, on sparc64, is softraid boot like that of i386/amd64 where
everything including root is stored within the RAID volume,
Yes, except as mentioned the RAID fs needs to be on an 'a' partition.
or does sparc64
require me to have a small partition at the beginning of my physical disks
containing the kernel and ofwboot?
No it does not.
