Re: Prepping to install: a digression

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

wam%hiwaay.net@localhost ("William A. Mahaffey III") writes:

>P.S. As mentioned elsewhere, I have had trouble w/ raidctl -A root 
>before, so I haven't gone there yet. Is that actually required for boot 
>from root on RAID (man pages seem ambiguous on that point) ?

Currently it is necessary.

The bootloader understands enough about RAID to read /boot and /netbsd.
But the kernel just gets data about the boot device (wd0) which has no
root partition.

The raidctl -A magic overrides the bootloader information, so that the
kernel will see and mount raidNa as the root partition.

The magic should go away and the kernel should just learn how to handle
raid partitions (and LVM partitions and ...). But for now that's how it
works.

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