Re: Strange boot problems on amd64-current (6.99.40)

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Sun, 11 May 2014, Christos Zoulas wrote:

> On May 11,  3:28pm, paul%whooppee.com@localhost (Paul Goyette) wrote:
> -- Subject: Re: Strange boot problems on amd64-current (6.99.40)
>
> | Good call - a GENERIC kernel from 2014-04-02 at 02:15 UTC works, and one
> | from 02:18 (immediately after commit of revision 1.306 of
> | sys/dev/raidframe/rf_netbsdkintf.c) fails.
> |
> | I've also tried kernels from 2014-04-03 at 15:31 and 18:57 (following
> | commits of revisions 1.307 and 1.308) and those kernels also do not
> | work.
> |
> | I'll be more than happy to try out any possible/proposed solutions.
>
> So what's happening, and how does the disk partitioning and raid
> configuration work?

From previous Emails in this thread:

> > http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2014/05/10/msg024812.html

...
WARNING: double match for boot device (wd0, wd1)
raid0: RAID Level 1
raid0: Components: /dev/wd0e /dev/wd1e
raid0: Total sectors 488395008 (238474 MB)
raid1: RAID Level 1
raid1: Components: /dev/wd2e /dev/wd2e
raid1: Total sectors 976770944 (476938 MB)
boot device: raid0
root on raid0e dumps on raid0b
warning: no /dev/console
exec /sbin/init: error 2

It then tries to exec oinit, init.bak, and rescue/init all resulting in 
the same "error 2" 
...


> > http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2014/05/11/msg024814.html
...
wd0e and wd1e are partitioned as follows:

screamer:netbsd-local {129} disklabel wd0
# /dev/rwd0d:
type: ESDI
disk: ST3250318AS
<snip>
5 partitions:
#        size    offset  fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
 c: 488395120      2048  unused      0     0      # (Cyl.   2*- 484520)
 d: 488397168         0  unused      0     0      # (Cyl.   0 - 484520)
 e: 488395120      2048    RAID                   # (Cyl.   2*- 484520)


And raid0 is partitioned as

# /dev/rraid0d:
type: RAID
disk: raid
<snip>
6 partitions:
#        size    offset   fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
 a:  41943040         0  4.2BSD   2048 16384    0  # (Cyl.      0 -  40959)
 b:  62914560  41943040    swap                    # (Cyl.  40960 - 102399)
 c: 488395008         0  unused      0     0       # (Cyl.      0 - 476948*)
 d: 488395008         0  unused      0     0       # (Cyl.      0 - 476948*)
 e: 125829120 104857600  4.2BSD   2048 16384    0  # (Cyl. 102400 - 225279)
 f: 257708288 230686720  4.2BSD   2048 16384    0  # (Cyl. 225280 - 476948*)
...


/etc/raid0.conf contains:

        #grep -v '^#' /etc/raid0.conf

        START array
        1 2 0

        START disks
        /dev/wd0e
        /dev/wd1e

        START layout
        128 1 1 1

        START queue
        fifo 100






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