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OpenBSD 6.9 Install T5220 Sparc64

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I am attempting to install OpenBSD 6.9 on a T5220 with 2 sparc64 based processors. I'm using install69.img, the install completes somewhat successfully. The error message I get at the end is:

Making all device nodes... done.
installboot: realpath: No such file or directory

Failed to install bootblocks.
You will not be able to boot OpenBSD from sd8.

SD8 is a softraid disk running raid 0. To try and fix this I run the command:

/mnt/usr/sbin/installboot -v sd8 /mnt/usr/mdec/bootblk /mnt/usr/mdec/ofwboot

The output is:

Using / as root
installing bootstrap on /dev/rsd8c
using first-stage /mnt/usr/mdec/bootblk, second-stage /mnt/usr/mdec/ofwboot
boot block is 6888 bytes (14 blocks @ 512 bytes = 7168 bytes)
sd8: softraid volume with 8 disk(s)
sd8: installing boot loader on softraid volume
sd0a: installing boot blocks on /dev/rsd0c
writing boot block to disk /dev/rsd0c
sd1a: installing boot blocks on /dev/rsd1c
writing boot block to disk /dev/rsd1c
sd2a: installing boot blocks on /dev/rsd2c
writing boot block to disk /dev/rsd2c
sd3a: installing boot blocks on /dev/rsd3c
writing boot block to disk /dev/rsd3c
sd4a: installing boot blocks on /dev/rsd4c
writing boot block to disk /dev/rsd4c
sd5a: installing boot blocks on /dev/rsd5c
writing boot block to disk /dev/rsd5c
sd6a: installing boot blocks on /dev/rsd6c
writing boot block to disk /dev/rsd6c
sd7a: installing boot blocks on /dev/rsd7c
writing boot block to disk /dev/rsd7c

When I reboot the server the OpenBSD bootloader loads and leaves me in the boot prompt. I am not able to boot from the disks after an install.

TLDR: How do you get a T5220 to boot OpenBSD.

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