Re: Prepping to install: a digression

["William A. Mahaffey III" <wam%hiwaay.net@localhost>]

On 07/13/15 19:50, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <55A43D0B.6030208%hiwaay.net@localhost>,
> William A. Mahaffey III <wam%hiwaay.net@localhost> wrote:
> > -=-=-=-=-=-
> >
> > On 07/13/15 11:12, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> > > In article <55A3D796.60808%hiwaay.net@localhost>,
> > > William A. Mahaffey III <wam%hiwaay.net@localhost> wrote:
> > >
> > > [stuff deleted]
> > >
> > > > Anything on this, anyone ? I am (re-)reading the online raidctl &
> > > > installboot man pages, but I am out of ideas for now .... Any more info
> > > > needed, please ask, & *any* help appreciated, I am stuck :-( ....
> > > Did the raid autoconfigure at this point? If it did, then you could boot -a
> > > and enter raid0a for the root device. Then you can try to to make raid
> > > autoconfigure root... What does raidctl -s raid0 say?
> > >
> > > christos
> >
> > Thanks for the reply. I tried the 'boot -a'. It got down to the following:
> >
> > boot device: wd0
> > root device (default wd0a):
> >
> > When I tried to type in 'raid0a', it added 'pckbport_start: command
> > error' & hung.
> >
> > i.e. it now says:
> >
> > boot device: wd0
> > root device (default wd0a): pckbport_start: command error
> >
> > with the cursor right below that line & not responding.
> >
> > The RAID devices all autoconfigured OK, AFAICT, all 3 were mentioned,
> > showed the component partitions, had the right sizes, etc. i.e. it
> > looked AOK to me. The lines from the RAID device recognition were right
> > before the above 'boot device' line. I then powered off, put the install
> > USB stick in & powered up. I bumped over into the shell & executed
> > 'raidctl -s raid0 > LIST.raid0.new.txt', which I attach. If you need
> > *anything* else, please don't hesitate. Thanks again & TIA for any new
> > clues.
> >
> > P.S. As mentioned elsewhere, I have had trouble w/ raidctl -A root
> > before, so I haven't gone there yet. Is that actually required for boot
> >from root on RAID (man pages seem ambiguous on that point) ?
>
> Yes, this is required for booting from raid. I am wondering why the
> keyboard is not functional for you. Try raidctl -A softroot <device>
>
> christos

*Eeeeeeek*, I am using 6.1.5, no softroot option for raidctl -A, that's 
apparently only in 7.0-CURRENT, not even seen in 7.0-RC1 ....

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