Subject: Re: RAIDframe for dom0?
To: TLorD <tld@tld.digitalcurse.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>
List: port-xen
Date: 08/10/2005 19:09:24
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, TLorD wrote:

> Greg Troxel wrote:
>> I would like to set up a machine with NetBSD/Xen and RAID-1 (on 2
>> identical disks).  Ideally, I'd like to be able to boot off a RAID-1
>> root, with xen and netbsd-XEN0 both on that filesystem, with boot
>> blocks on the other disk that can boot off the second disk.
>
> I think you could solve your issues by creating a small (about 20mb) wd0a
> partition, placing grub + netbsd kernel + a couple of files and then boot from
> that partition.
> The rest of the disk would then go to raid0.
> Just mount raid0a as / and you should be done.

 	You may also be able to setup another partition offset 64 sectors
 	from the start of the raid partition and tell grub to boot that.

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