Subject: Re: Copying Boot Partition
To: Neil Young <nyoung@fieldmuseum.org>
From: Johnny C. Lam <jlam@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 12/13/2001 22:39:23
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 07:55:17PM -0600, Neil Young wrote:
>
> I am a new NetBSD convert and have successfully built a RAID 1 mirror as my
> root with Raidframe. My question is, how do I go about copying my basic
> system to the mirror drive and make it bootable, in the event that the
> primary drive goes south?
The following article on BSD Today contains a complete walk-through of
setting up a RAID device as a root partition on NetBSD-1.5.
http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/August/Features264.html
I find I usually refer between this article and the raidctl(8) man page when
I have to set up new RAID devices.
Cheers,
-- Johnny Lam <jlam@netbsd.org>