Re: CVS commit: src/sys/dev/raidframe

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 06:37:21AM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> On Apr 2,  2:10pm, mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost (matthew green) wrote:
> | i like this.. i think.
> | 
> | i wonder if this will break my system that boot from a different
> | device to the raid root device.
> 
> I think it will.
> 
> | eg, ultra10 whose prom can't talk to my sata disk, and boots from
> | a cf/ide fob with just ofwboot and netbsd (and attaches as wd0),
> | and mountroots from the raidframe on wd1+wd2.
> 
> Well, there are different options here:
> 1. is there a way to pass the root from ofwboot to netbsd?

There should be - I'd have though that loading the kernel
from other than the root parition was needed for some non-raid
configurations - eg large disks.

        David

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