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Re: Prepping to install: a digression



On 07/13/15 20:46, Robert Elz wrote:
     Date:        Tue, 14 Jul 2015 00:43:57 +0000 (UTC)
     From:        christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
     Message-ID:  <mo1m0c$64o$1%ger.gmane.org@localhost>

   | Yes, this is required for booting from raid.

It is required to make the root on raid work automatically, not for
booting.

   | I am wondering why the keyboard is not functional for you.

I suspect (well, really, I'm sure) that's an entirely unrelated problem,
one which has been reported several times before - there must be something
about some systems that NetBSD's initial keyboard access stuff (before
wekbd gets a chance to get involved) isn't doing properly.   If he can get
booting working properly, it shouldn't matter normally.

   | Try raidctl -A softroot <device>

I'd suggest not.   It won't make the boot work - cannot possibly help with
that, and will only make it difficult to recover (again - though now it has
been done once, at least a working method is known), whereas now it is easy
to simply start again.

As I said a week or two ago - you need to get to the state where the kernel
boots, autoconfigures devices, and then fails to find the root filesystem
(booting from the wd discs, not the USB plugin) - when you have that much
working, then is the time to reboot from the USB, and do that raidctl to
allow the root raid to appear.

kre


I had a thought last evening. Is it possible that dmesg info (or something similar) is still stored somewhere on the filesystem from the failed HDD boot ? If so, is it possible to boot from the USB drive & recover it somehow ? I powered off using the power button & it 'unbooted' cleanly. That dmesg info would provide more accurate & detailed info on the state of the boot process than me trying to type it in from memory or hand-written notes. Just a thought ....


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