Re: Key-based FDE /w UEFI fails => SUCCESS

Am 30.11.18 um 16:38 schrieb Joel Sing:
> On Thursday 29 November 2018 20:38:23 Stefan Wollny wrote:
>> Hi there!
>>
>> I need help / advice with a fresh install onto a Thinkpad T450s which I
>> recently bought on eBay.
>>
>> The system starts with UEFI enabled and was running fine with a rather
>> small SSD without FDE. dmesg from some recent posts may be found.
>>
>> I followed the steps as given in the FAQ
>> (http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#softraid) with a new, larger SSD
>> and the key disk both initialized with
>> 'fdisk -iy -g -b 960 sd0' (and '... sd2' for the key disk).
>>
>> On both disks I created a 'a'-partion with type RAID as zero'd the first
>> blocks.
>>
>> softraid is activated with 'bioctl -c C -k sd2a -l sd0a softraid0'.
>>
>> The installation was without noticable deviation to a non-FDE installation.
>>
>> The layout is identical to an other FDE-secured laptop which starts with
>> BIOS:
>> sd0a /
>> sd0b swap
>> sd0d /tmp
>> sd0e /var
>> sd0f /usr
>> sd0g /usr/local
>> sd0h /home
>> (As this is a 1TB-SSD each partition has lots of capacity...)
>>
>> Yet after rebooting the first time I get the following:
>>
>> probing: pc0 mem[352K 204K 3256M 4832M]
>> disk: hd0 hd1 sr0*
>>
>>>> OpenBSD/amd64 BOOTS64 3.40
>>
>> open(hd0a:/etc/boot.con f): Invalid argument
>> boot>
>> cannot open hd0a:/etc/random.seed: Invalid argument
>> booting hd0a:/bsd: open hd0a:/bsd: Invalid argument
>> failed(22). will try /bsd
>> boot>
>> cannot open hd0a:/etc/random.seed: Invalid argument
>> booting hd0a:/bsd: open hd0a:/bsd: Invalid argument
>> failed(22). will try /bsd
>> Turning timeout off.
>> boot>
>>
>> At this point I am lost. Tried to google for any information that makes
>> sense but only found very old posts (from 2011 and older) which didn't
>> provide hints on how to proceed.
>>
>> Anybody with a clue?
>
> The 'sr0*' in the above output shows that the boot loader found the softraid
> volume and believes that it is bootable. What should have happened is that the
> boot loader identified that the disk you booted from is part of the softraid
> volume and switched to sr0 as the boot device - for some reason it did not and
> continued to try to boot from hd0 instead.
>
> You should be able to boot by manually specifying:
>
> boot sr0a:/bsd
>
> at the boot> prompt.
>
> If that works we'll have to track down the reason why the automatic switching
> of the boot device failed (line 146 of sys/arch/amd64/stand/libsa/dev_i386.c
> and the code that leads up to it).
>
SUCCESS!

With this boot params the system came up as expected.

THANK YOU once again for caring and your precious time! Much appreciated.

Let me know if I shall do some tests prior to taking the machine to
production.

Best,
STEFAN