Am 30.11.18 um 16:38 schrieb Joel Sing: > On Thursday 29 November 2018 20:38:23 Stefan Wollny wrote: >> Hi there! >> >> I need help / advice with a fresh install onto a Thinkpad T450s which I >> recently bought on eBay. >> >> The system starts with UEFI enabled and was running fine with a rather >> small SSD without FDE. dmesg from some recent posts may be found. >> >> I followed the steps as given in the FAQ >> (http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#softraid) with a new, larger SSD >> and the key disk both initialized with >> 'fdisk -iy -g -b 960 sd0' (and '... sd2' for the key disk). >> >> On both disks I created a 'a'-partion with type RAID as zero'd the first >> blocks. >> >> softraid is activated with 'bioctl -c C -k sd2a -l sd0a softraid0'. >> >> The installation was without noticable deviation to a non-FDE installation. >> >> The layout is identical to an other FDE-secured laptop which starts with >> BIOS: >> sd0a / >> sd0b swap >> sd0d /tmp >> sd0e /var >> sd0f /usr >> sd0g /usr/local >> sd0h /home >> (As this is a 1TB-SSD each partition has lots of capacity...) >> >> Yet after rebooting the first time I get the following: >> >> probing: pc0 mem[352K 204K 3256M 4832M] >> disk: hd0 hd1 sr0* >> >>>> OpenBSD/amd64 BOOTS64 3.40 >> >> open(hd0a:/etc/boot.con f): Invalid argument >> boot> >> cannot open hd0a:/etc/random.seed: Invalid argument >> booting hd0a:/bsd: open hd0a:/bsd: Invalid argument >> failed(22). will try /bsd >> boot> >> cannot open hd0a:/etc/random.seed: Invalid argument >> booting hd0a:/bsd: open hd0a:/bsd: Invalid argument >> failed(22). will try /bsd >> Turning timeout off. >> boot> >> >> At this point I am lost. Tried to google for any information that makes >> sense but only found very old posts (from 2011 and older) which didn't >> provide hints on how to proceed. >> >> Anybody with a clue? > > The 'sr0*' in the above output shows that the boot loader found the softraid > volume and believes that it is bootable. What should have happened is that > the > boot loader identified that the disk you booted from is part of the softraid > volume and switched to sr0 as the boot device - for some reason it did not > and > continued to try to boot from hd0 instead. > > You should be able to boot by manually specifying: > > boot sr0a:/bsd > > at the boot> prompt. > > If that works we'll have to track down the reason why the automatic switching > of the boot device failed (line 146 of sys/arch/amd64/stand/libsa/dev_i386.c > and the code that leads up to it). > SUCCESS!
With this boot params the system came up as expected. THANK YOU once again for caring and your precious time! Much appreciated. Let me know if I shall do some tests prior to taking the machine to production. Best, STEFAN
