Subject: Re: RAIDframe bootability
To: None <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: Aaron J. Grier <agrier@poofygoof.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/18/2001 13:01:13
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 03:58:27PM -0600, Greg Oster wrote:
> Chris Jones writes:
[snip]
> > I know the raid(4) man page says it only works on alpha and pmax, 
> 
> That's referring to booting a kernel *directly* from a RAID 1 (mirror)
> set.  Alpha, pmax and vax (hmm.. should update that man-page, I guess
> :) ) boot blocks know how to grab a kernel directly from a RAID 1 set.  

who here is running RAID on their VAXen?  ;)

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