Subject: Re: i386 booting into RAID?
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 06/22/2005 12:42:31
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 06:22:39PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> 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.
He wants to read the kernel directly (not via raidctl) from an individual
disk which later in the boot sequence becomes part of a raid set.
GH
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