Subject: Re: i386 booting into RAID?
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Jukka Salmi <j+nbsd@2005.salmi.ch>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 06/22/2005 12:31:46
Cameron Patrick --> netbsd-users (2005-06-22 18:22:39 +0800):
> Malcolm Herbert wrote:
> 
> > I'm putting together a system with two internal disks in a mirror 
> > configuration and I'd like to do away with the need to have the extra 
> > small slice to house the kernel outside the RAID device.
> 
> Erm, doesn't this work anyway without jumping through hoops?  I've
> never tried it, but the raidctl man page claims that the bootloader
> can read a kernel straight from a raid1 set.

Yes, it does. This is [1]documented in the NetBSD guide, too.


Cheers, Jukka

[1] http://www.netbsd.org/guide/en/chap-rf.html#chap-rf-ex-raid1root

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