On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 10:41:56AM +0100, Zé Loff wrote:
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> Hi all
>
> I connected my laptop's encrypted HDD to my desktop machine to copy some
> stuff and when I put it back on the laptop the boot loader no longer
> asks for the passphrase and thus I can't boot from it. Any clues? Some
> notes:
>
> - Both machines are amd64 running snapshots, 6.2 #115 (Sep 27) on the
> laptop, 6.1 #125 (Oct 1) on the desktop (I had to disable pcppi on the
> desktop, so not exactly vanilla).
>
> - The softraid volume was and still is correctly attached/detached on
> the desktop and on a i386 machine running 6.1-release+mtier
>
> - The metadata changed when connecting to the desktop, roaming from sd1
> to sd3. I attached/detached it on the i386 machine to make it roam
> back to sd1, just in case, but it expectedly made no difference.
>
> - I ran installboot on the softraid volume, to no avail.
>
> - Tried booting bsd.rd from a USB stick, starting an upgrade, dropping
> to shell, MAKEDEV sd0 sd1 sd2, attaching the crypto volume and
> selecting it as the root disk. The installer complains that it is not
> a valid root disk even though all tests mention here[1] pass:
>
>
> [1] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-bugs&m=150170071321416&w=2
Strike that last one. Forgot to umount /mnt before going back to the
installer, so the "mount test" failed in the installer. Just managed to
do the upgrade and it's all back to normal now.
Anyway, I took a bit of a scare there. Can anyone shed some light on to
what happened? Is a CAVEAT in order? I can try to write something up,
but I'd need to understand it first...
> Any hints? Thanks in advance
> Zé
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