>Number:         25585
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       Cannot boot an alternate root fs if a raid device is marked 'root'
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    kern-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sat May 15 22:11:00 UTC 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     David Laight
>Release:        NetBSD 2.0E
>Organization:
>Environment:
	
	
Current as of May 14 2004
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
	If I mark a raid set '-A root raid0' then all attepts to boot
	that system use the raid set as the root filesystem - regardless
	as to what is typed to the boot prompt.

	This makes it impossible to have multiple systems on the same
	machine.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
	Dunno... 
	The current behaviour is usually done by building a kernel with the
	relevant root fs embedded in it.
	IMHO the raid set should only become the root fs if a normal boot
	would have booted a fs in the disk space that holds the raid set.
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