![]() ![]() I don't think there's a problem with the hardware as I've been running OpenBSD on this machine for some time (albeit 6.5, and doing a single-disk MBR boot). Some googling led me to believe the UEFI boot loader might be missing from the "i" partition, but I booted from the USB key and checked the "i" partition on both members of the mirror (sd0i/sd1i) and the UEFI files are there. I can UEFI boot from the install image on the USB key, but I can't UEFI boot at all from the hard disks. I'm not sure why this is happening, but I thought "Well, maybe it's time to try UEFI boot and see what that does." This is new so I go check-/etc/nf indeed doesn't exist, but /etc/ed does. I know at some point there were size limitations and issues with /boot or /bsd being too far from the beginning of the disk, but I've never run into them and I don't know if they're still an issue.Īnyway, the softraid boot works fine, but on every single boot it complains that it can't read /etc/nf or /etc/ed. ![]() I've been doing that for years and never run into a problem booting. So I created a single large "a" partition and installed to that. Note that I never use the default disk layout, I really dislike having multiple partitions and the annoyance that comes with never having the disk space you need in the partition you need. Then I installed on to sd3 (sd2 ends up being the boot USB drive) and reboot. I dropped to the shell, setup the softraid the same way I always do (initialize each disk with fdisk -iy, setup the disklabel, use bioctl to mirror the drives). I am trying to set these drives up as a mirror and get the system to boot off of it.įirst I tried just doing the standard MBR boot like I always do. New machine is running an i2500k on ASRock Z77 Pro4, 16GB RAM, and 2x2TB hard drives (sd0 and sd1). I'm trying to do a fresh install of 6.7 on the new machine and running into issues. I'm "moving" my firewall install from one physical machine to another (this is basically intended to be a forklift upgrade). Normally I've been able to solve pretty much all of my problems just by searching the internet, but this one has me stumped. Click Yes to continue.First time poster here, longtime OpenBSD user (since about 2.1 or so). You’ll be prompted for administrator access. Next, click Create a new pool and storage space. Hit Win+S and search for “storage spaces” and open the utility. The thing is, Microsoft doesn’t call it RAID in Windows 8, opting for “storage spaces” and “storage pools” instead. Windows: storage spacesĬreating a software RAID 0 array on Windows is really easy, and relatively painless. Be warned though: Installing an OS on top of a RAID 0 array can be really risky if your system data is critical. If you want to use FakeRAID, make sure your motherboard supports it. In Linux, you’ll need either the root password or sudo access. For Windows, you’ll need to be an Administrator. In your operating system, you’ll need to have elevated permissions to create a RAID array. If you’re using FakeRAID, the motherboard’s RAID utility should warn you before it wipes partition tables and the filesystems on them. You can remove any partitions with Disk Management on Windows or “gparted” on Linux. If you’re using old drives, make sure you get everything of value off of them first. When connecting your drives, make sure they’re all using the same SATA version as well.īefore a drive can be used in a RAID array, it must be clear of filesystems and partitions. RAID 0 doesn’t protect you from drive failure, so use new drives whenever possible. Don’t mix SSDs and mechanical drives in a RAID array the SSD is faster on its own. ![]() Mixing drive makes and models may work, but will result in faster drives being slowed down to match the slowest drive in the array. To ensure the best RAID performance, use identical drives with the same firmware. If you’re dual booting both Linux and Windows and need access to the array from both operating systems, use FakeRAID. Linux can’t see a RAID array created in Windows and vice versa. The problem with software RAID is that it only exists in the OS it was created in. Windows 8 comes with everything you need to use software RAID, while the Linux package “ mdadm ” is listed in most standard repositories. Creating a software RAID array in operating system software is the easiest way to go. ![]()
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