Subject: Re: proposed re-work / unification of boot block installation
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/12/2002 23:19:40
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 10:34:17PM -0800, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> [...]
> 	I'm not sure how well either technique will work with
> 		loading the stage 2 loader off of a raid set, as
> 		we would then have to have open firmware open each
> 		raid component, and masage them together.

Note that we're only handling raid-1 (aka "mirror") sets, you just need to
open one disk, and apply a well-known offset (RF_PROTECTED_SECTORS) to find
the filesystem.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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