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Re: booting from wd0b / raidframe



On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 05:00:31PM +0000, Patrick Welche wrote:
> 
> Yet I can boot from the network, but not from the disk...
> (pxeboot nfs:netbsd, raid0:rootfs)

Network boot doesn't ever assume that the root filesystem is at the
start of an mbr partition, it always follows the disklabel.

> (I think in the previous email I checked the mbr, and bootxx, so this is
> becoming a mystery...

I'd add some diag prints to boot1.c and rebuild bootxx_xxx.
IRRC you have putstr() and putint() available for output.

Could be something silly like it finds enough of a superblock
in one of the places it looks ....

        David

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