Hi Pierre,
On Tue, 06 Aug 2013 02:22:45 +0200 Pierre-Philipp Braun wrote:
> I am glad to send something to the documentation team. The very good
> Raidframe chapter needs a few updates.
>
> - installboot timeout is used as a trick to quicly identify on what disk
> the system is going to boot. You need to remove the /boot.cfg to use
> the legacy bootloader layout, as /boot.cfg also has a timeout parameter
> which takes precedence. Either edit /boot.cfg or remove it. I like the
> old boot menu so I do,
> /usr/sbin/installboot -o timeout=20 -v /dev/rwd1a \
> /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv2
> mv /boot.cfg /boot.cfg.bkp
> Note. This applies to the several installboot occurrences in the guide.
>
> - There is a little confusion on using FFSv1 versus FFSv2. First the
> guide says to initialize the file system on raid0a with FFSv1. Then is
> uses installboot to install the FFSv2 boot blocks. Then the note just
> below the latter explains it all. Well, using FFSv2 from the start
> isn't a bit issue even on less that 1TB drives. It worked fine here,
> anyways. I guess you should just use FFSv2 from the start, and add a
> little note on using FFSv1 for older systems. The note just below
> installboot could stay unchanged.
it is difficult to put that into the guide, as we cannot really experience
the same as you did. Could you please provide a patch with the changes (or
just the whole article edited, we can apply that as well)?
You can find the source of the raidframe chapter here:
https://wiki.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/ikiwiki?page=guide%2Fraidframe&do=getsource
Regards, Julian
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