Re: SoftRAID on amd64

[Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>]

On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 07:08:46AM +0200, Achim Dirks wrote:
> i would like to set up a Bootable Software RAID on an amd64 Machine
> running NetBSD 6.1. On the manpages for raidctl it says that booting
> the kernel from a RAID is currently not supported on amd64.

That is not true:

tron@colwyn:~>uname -srm
NetBSD 6.1_STABLE amd64
tron@colwyn:~>sysctl kern.root_device
kern.root_device = raid0

> Is this true or is there a slim chance that the manpage is outdated?

The manual page is indeed outdated. I've now corrected it.

        Thanks for the hint

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/